Re: [RFH] rpm packaging failure

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 19:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20100130194746.GN29188@inocybe.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vsk9nsemh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The files that are problematic are only infrastructure bits to
> support "remote helpers written in Python" (which we don't ship at
> all yet).

Ahh, I hadn't followed along closely enough to know that nothing which used these files was installed.

> And if the removal is the way to go for 1.7.0, is the following an
> Ok approach to do that removal (this is asking an RPM help again to
> Todd)?

Not shipping them if they aren't yet used/needed for anything other than folks working on remote helpers seems reasonable and the rm in the spec file should do the trick nicely. But I have to wonder why even bother installing them via make install if folks packaging via rpms, debs, etc. will all have to manually remove these files?

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