On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In @rpm5.org, yes.On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:50 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:Yes indeed, this would be best in many cases. Some can't really be done
> > 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}"
like that, though - like the snippets for Tcl and Python to define the
version, directories for certain types of file and so on. They're
just...informational. Defining them as macros seems the optimal
solution.
This is definitely possible; Mandriva (I know I talk about MDV a lot,
> 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.
I'm sorry, it's what I know! :>) does this, via an implementation called
'file triggers'. This is not yet upstream, though.
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