Removing noise from specs

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu May 18 11:32:32 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 23:06 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Have rpm default to %defattr(-,root,root,-) in %files section(s). It's
> the 
> right thing for most packages so it's really just noise in 90% of the 
> specs, it's an endless source of silly packaging mistakes (forgetting
> to 
> add it when splitting off a subpackage etc) and those who need
> special 
> permissions can set them with their own %defattr/%attr use.
> 
> Pretty please? 

+1

The more of this cryptic crap we can move into default macros the
better.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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