Re: Comments in spec files (was Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070517) FESCO meeting)

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On Sat, 19 May 2007 14:54:11 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:

> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > All we're asking (well, maybe all _I_ am asking) is that when people
> > feel like they need to break one of the guidelines, they present their
> > case and document that case in the spec file.
> 
> On that topic, how does one write comments in a spec file ?

# Like this
## or this in many script languages.

> I remember a 
> few years ago I was asked to remove all '# comments' lines from 
> scriptlets apparently because they "could cause problems"...

No. You were only asked to not add such comment lines _after_ scriptlet
sections in the spec file, because the comments would be included in the
scriptlet bodies, even if a scriptlet section is passed to /sbin/ldconfig,
which doesn't understand the contents and breaks badly.

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