On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Jerry James <loganjerry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jerry James
<loganjerry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm reviewing a submission of an ocaml program. The spec file has
> this at the top:
>
> %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> %global __find_requires /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-requires.sh
> %global __find_provides /usr/lib/rpm/ocaml-find-provides.sh
>
> as required by
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml#Requires_and_provides.
> But it seems that those lines are not only unnecessary, but
> detrimental. Taking them off generates the same Requires/Provides
> (due to /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/ocaml.attr), plus additional ones. In
> the case of the package I'm reviewing, it's innocuous. But I have an
> ocaml package that I maintain where the extra Requires/Provides
> generated by omitting those lines appear to be significant.
>
> Is the wiki correct? Are those lines still needed for some reason?
> Or is the wiki out of date?
Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
Is anybody actually reading this mailing list, or am I just talking to myself?
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Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/