On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 04:01:58PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:12 PM Stephen Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Or they will just do what I used to do long ago and just do a temp spec
> > file with some sort of `%files *` and then rpm -ql and then `rpm -ql | sed`
> > and replace the data in the pushed spec with the list. Nothing is caught
> > because few people have time for the several hundred packages they are
> > maintaining.
>
> As I recall(*), there are spec files that just
> find the various installed files (categorized
> as needed), and then use the -f option
> on the %files section. Which, technically,
> meets the requirements, while not dealing
> with the intent at all. I think this is really
> a question of scale. For smaller packages
> with a small number of expected files,
> listing them explicitly is going to be a
> smaller burden to add or maintain, but for
> larger packages (arguably exactly the
> ones that are more likely to "stomp" on
> other files and you want to catch changes
> for), the work is likely much higher (to the
> point that one adds in automation to hide
> the work).
I don't think that the scale question is a big factor here
because this is a one-time hit when creating the spec. If a
package install 1000 files into %{_bindir} or %{_includedir}
by all means use a script to automate the filling of %files
without wildcards, when first authoring the spec file.
On subsequent updates to new releases, the projects are not going
to be adding/removing huge numbers of files in these directories.
You'll be looking out for a small number of changes, just like any
other package regardless of scale.
With regards,
Daniel
--
|: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :|
|: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :|
|: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Fedora Code of Conduct:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
Do not reply to spam, report it:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
