Re: Would this be considered a packaging bug?

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On 02/25/2017 06:52 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=861692
> 
> The source RPM there uses
> 
> %if 0%{?rhel}
> # not upstreamed
> Patch500: 0001-disable-libe-book-support.patch
> Patch501: 0001-fix-build-of-bundled-libzmf-with-boost-1.56.patch
> Patch502: 0001-allow-to-build-bundled-libzmf-on-aarch64.patch
> Patch503: 0001-impl.-missing-function.patch
> %endif
> 
> (and more than just those) resulting in those patches not being included
> in the src.rpm because the rpm was not built on rhel/centos.
> 
> My understanding was that platform specific patches were suppose to have
> the %if macro where the patch is applied, but should not be where the
> source for the patch is defined.
> 
> Been a long time since I was a fedora packager so I don't know what
> current packaging guidelines are, but that just seems wrong.
> 
> Is it wrong?

It depends .. in the Red Hat world, this is used so that patches are
applied on RHEL but not on Fedora.  That is the purpose of that patch.
The RHEL team added something to that patch for RHEL that is different
than Fedora.

So, if built on Fedora, those patches are not installed.  Why would that
be a problem?


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