On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:17 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > I need to remove some files from the Asterisk tarballs (one for legal > reasons, the other for size/redundancy issues). This sounds fishy. I'm not sure it ever makes sense to remove a file from an upstream tarball for 'size/redundancy issues'. After all, we're not shipping the source tarball anywhere but in the SRPMs, which are only on mirrors, and I'm not aware of some huge space pressure problem there that you'd be solving by stripping files from tarballs. Messing with upstream tarballs is, IMHO, a sensitive operation that should only be done when absolutely unavoidable, and the only case where it's absolutely unavoidable is if the tarball contains something we can't legally provide on a Fedora mirror. For anything else, I believe the tarball should be kept intact. By all means drop files from the final binary packages that would be taking up space for no real reason - using %exclude or whatever - but I don't see a justification for dropping them from the SRPM, unless there's some space-critical use of SRPMs that I'm unaware of. -- 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
