Hi,
I am sometimes reviewing spec files and I very often see common mistakes. I mean in packages which are already in
Fedora. For a long time and they have some dust from past times.
I am not going to file bug reports as those are not bugs. I will just point it here and leave it up to you to check your
spec files:
* Group: System Environment/Base
Please remove it. Group was intended for something (sort apps in menus), but it never actually worked. It was required
for EL5 packages. Since EL6 it can be omitted. And nowadays it is recommended to remove it completely.
* rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
In the past, it was necessary to clean the buildroot at the beginning of %install and the end of %clean. This is no
longer true and not needed since F12.
* %defattr(-,root,root,-)
If you have this at the top of your %files section, then you can safely remove it. This is default since rpm 4.2, so it
is not needed even for RHEL5.
* Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
RPM define builroot variable since F12 (and EL6). There is no need to define it yourself.
Miroslav
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