On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:45 +0100, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: > >> 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 ? > > > > What I've done in the past is to do the above, and place the steps to > > convert the old tarball into the new, verbatim, in comments near the > > Source0 tag, with comments as to why, BZ#, etc. > > That's what I thought thanks. When I hit this situation while packaging for MDV, I would include a short explanation of the problem and the exact sequence of commands necessary to re-create the tarball (wget foo.tar.gz; tar xvf foo.tar.gz; rm -f foo/badfile; tar cvzf foo-modified.tar.gz foo/ , for e.g.) as comments in the spec file, and rename the file (as implied in that example). Using the same name as upstream for a tarball that is not in fact the same tarball is, IMHO, potentially misleading. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
