On Wednesday 18 February 2009, 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 ? Others have already chimed in, but here's what I consider good practice: - Always do it with a script. - Include the script in the source rpm (no need to add build dependencies for the tools it uses). - Rename the modified archive some way to make it distinguishable from vanilla upstream one just by looking at the archive's basename. - Use good compression (tar with bzip2 or lzma) when generating the modified one in order to possibly save a bit of space. - Do not use a URL in the SourceX line of the archive unless the modified archive is actually downloadable from that URL, use a plain filename instead. - Place a comment like "SourceX generated with SourceY" above the modified SourceX archive (where SourceY is the script), and another comment why a modified archive is used in the first place to the specfile or to the script. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
