Re: Packages which needlessly use %defattr

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Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:18:00 +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>> What about just doing a mass specfile update now? I think asking
>> individual maintainers to fix their packages isn't worth their
>> time. It's a safe change,
> 
> Is it? I haven't found whether this change is compatible with CentOS-6 (and 7)
> which could break them if you just build the Fedora Rawhide .spec for them.

It is.  Jason mentioned this in the initial message:

> RPM has provided a sensible default since version 4.4
> (which predates FC6 and RHEL5)

I regularly build git from rawhide, which has no %defattr,
for EL-{6,7} systems.

In case anyone might find that useful or wants to confirm
that the lack of %defattr causes no issues, the COPR's are:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/git-maint/git/
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tmz/git/

-- 
Todd
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