[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Tim Jackson]

Christopher Stone wrote:

> On 7/3/06, Tim Jackson <lists at timj.co.uk> wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185423
>> http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/specs/php-pear-PEAR-Command-Packaging.spec
>> http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/srpms/php-pear-PEAR-Command-Packaging-0.1.1-1.src.rpm 

> I do not like the way patches are handled in this case.  I have
> reworked the spec file here:
> http://tkmame.retrogames.com/fedora-extras/php-pear-PEAR-Command-Packaging.spec 

Looks fine to me. I agree that's more readable.

> Where the patches are done normally.  Perhaps we should use this type
> of install as a standard?  That is, untarring the tarball, making any
> necessary patches, then installing with the .xml file?

Good idea. The end result should be exactly the same. Although it does 
add an extra step for packages that *don't* need patching. (Which 
hopefully most won't; PEAR_Command_Packaging should be an exception)

Tim