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Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)

Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)

Posted May 7, 2011 13:48 UTC (Sat) by Ansus (guest, #74724)
In reply to: Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition) by proyvind
Parent article: Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)

> reduce the huge crap pile of macros and feeble attempts of achieving compatibility with %if foo blablbla %endif.

I have ported hundreds of packages from other RPM distros and as I can say, the only places where you have to place %if...%endif most often are the BuildRequires tags due to different package names and the update-desktop-files machinery.


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(offtopic) from .desktop accounting department

Posted May 9, 2011 12:42 UTC (Mon) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

> [...] and the update-desktop-files machinery.
...which is best done by a posttrans trigger IMO&X.

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