Hi, On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been dipping my toes into packaging things for Fedora lately, and > one thing that feels a bit awkward is that the packaging guidelines are > full of boilerplate like: [...] > > Heck, there's an entire page full of these: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets > [...] > It seems to me it'd make sense to convert all these kinds of snippets > into macros. Am I right, or is there a reason against doing this? It would be awesome to get rid of the boilerplate. Honestly though, I'd rather the solution was "just works" than "replace giant glob of muck with %{glob_of_muck}" For instance, if a file gets dropped under /usr/share/icons/something rpm should run gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/something automatically. the gtk2 package should be able to drop a file in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat that makes that happen. likewise, desktop-file-utils should be able to drop a file there to make update-desktop-database get run and so on. I don't know how hard it would be to fix rpm to allow for that though. --Ray -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
