Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (220 mails)

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Pavol,

Le vendredi 04 septembre 2009, Pavol Rusnak a écrit :
> New RPM 4.7.1 hit Factory and I created a list of interesting changes
> from Packagers' point of view. You can read the full post at [1] (and it
> will probably grow until 11.2 final is out), but I will also post the
> shortened version here too:
>
> * Macro %patch does not behave like %patch0 anymore. Stop using it and
> use Patch0: and %patch0 in your .spec files.

What about Source:? Is it still equivalent to Source0:?

> * Fuzz tolerance for patches was changed from 2 to zero. All patches
> must apply cleanly now.

This is great news :)

> * Sub-packages can be declared as “noarch” now. Such .spec file is
> incompatible with older RPM but the resulting binary packages are
> compatible.
>
> * Section %files now supports multiple file lists. No need to join the
> files into one in %install section.
>
> * The new macros %{patches} and %{sources} are available. You can use
> them in for loops to iterate over all patches and sources respectively.
>
> [1] http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/09/new-rpm-in-opensuse-factory/

Thanks for the great summary!

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3
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