Re: [opensuse-factory] The "GROUP" tag is still in Fedora rpms

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:03 AM Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Friday 2019-10-18 10:38, Neal Gompa wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:34 AM Dave Plater wrote:

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I've noted the argument that Fedora have dropped the group tag so I decided to download an FC30 rpm and inspect it, it still contains the GROUP tag but it is set to unspecified.

If the `Group` field is not set in the spec file, rpm will automatically set it to "Unspecified". This is required to maintain compatibility with older versions of RPM (pre rpm 4.6) that mandated the field be set to be a valid RPM.

Do you happen to know what the old versions mandate exactly? If all it checks for is "set" vs "unset", then maybe a zero-length string could be set in favor of "Unspecified".

Not off the top of my head, but you could ask the rpm guys (pmatilai and ffesti)... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org