Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (267 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

On 16.12.2011 13:50, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Friday 16 December 2011, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > On 16.12.2011 11:14, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > > Since I really like to keep my stuff (OBS packages) also working
> > > for this old (well, SLE 11 is actually still the most up2date
> > > enterprise distro of us) rpms, I like to request to drop the
> > > Group removeing for now.
> > >
> > > Or to add %if %suse_version around it so it is only active on old
> > > distro.
> >
> > BAH, that's the worst option of all.
> >
> > > Otherwise people will find workarounds to not use the formater at
> > > all anymore ...
>
> BTW how does that service works exactly? For example this one in 
> server:http/libev
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff?linkrev=base&package=libev&project=server%3Ahttp&rev=7
>
> Was it committed manually or automatically? Will it happens again after 
> now being fixed again in r11?

There is nothing automatic. But I have a script to sync up factory
packages in their devel project. And if I commit, my osc runs the service.
> > I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to have the build script run
> > a spec file patcher - either distribution specific or in general -
> > after all the duplicated group does not really harm in the spec file.
> >
> > But with this logic we will keep support for old rpms in our factory
> > spec files forever. So this spec file patcher could also add a
> > buildroot or even a default %clean section - right before building
> > without us having to carry those forever in the sources.
>
> The idea looks good but IMO it would be quite confusing for spare time 
> packagers if such patcher applies hidden magic differently for 
> different distros.
>
> I think generally any code formatters are nice but should be only used 
> seldom as single shots and not automatically again and again. For me a 
> clean commit history with mostly significant diffs is more important 
> than having every white space corrected but endless confusing 

... which is the reason we only format on commit.

Greetings, Stephan
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