[Fedora-packaging] Can you review my specfile: rsnapshot.spec

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Tue Apr 12 13:05:38 UTC 2005


<quote who="Michael Schwendt">
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:06:43 +0100 (BST), Gavin Henry wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Not sure if I should e-mail the Extras list or this, so here goes:
>
> Specific review requests should be posted to fedora-extras-list.
>
>> Anything stupid that I have missed?
>>
>> I have imported the srpm to Extras devel.
>
> CVS commits are posted to fedora-extras-commits list automatically:
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-commits
>
> I've posted a comment there (but included you in Cc in case you
> didn't know about the list before).
>
> As I won't find time to take a deep look, another comment here.
> The overly verbose
>
>   %verify(user group mode md5 size mtime)
>
> in the %files section should be deleted alltogether unless you
> have a good reason why to add them.
>
>
>> %prep
>> rm -rf %{buildroot}
>
> The rm -rf %buildroot is not needed here.
>
>
> "install" with option "-p" would be nice, because it preserves timestamps
> on installed files and enables users to see the age of static files
> easily.

Done.

Can you point me to the wiki page that shows how to checkout your own
module again, I've forgotten.

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