On Wednesday 18 February 2009 08:37:22 am Pierre-Yves wrote: > Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Because of a leagl issue, I have to remove a file from the upstream > > archive in one of my RPMs [1] > > > > How should I do that ? > > > > Is it as simple as: > > > > 1. extract the upstream archive > > 2. remove the said file > > 3. create again an archive with the same name and use it as Source0 > > > > Is there something I should take care of concerning timestamps or > > other subtleties ? > > > > Should I mention what I did to the upstream archive in my spec file ? > > You can mention it and remove the file directly in the spec in the %prep > section :) > > > Regards, > > Pierre Nope, sometimes (I have run into this a few times) you actually need to remove it from the source tarball itsself, which can be done as Mathieu said. Mathieu: You should make a note of how you did it and the rationale for removing the file(s) in the .spec. Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
