[CentOS-devel] brand hunting utility

Thu Jun 5 06:03:10 UTC 2014
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

>> On Wednesday, June 04, 2014 5:21 PM, Phil Wyett write:
>>
>> A useful tool indeed. By a quick look at the script it searches all
>> files within an SRPM. Should this tool now not be tweaked to
>> ignore/exclude files with historical data that should never be removed
>> that would certainly flag up in a search i.e. '.spec. files? Feature
>> request. :-)
>>
>
> Actually, it does an 'rpm -i' on the srpm and then searches the SOURCES
> folder (this is all done in a separate rpmbuild/_topdir folder per SRPM).
> Because the .spec file is saved in the SPECS folder, the tool doesn't
> search it.

But I think there are cases where also the .spec file would need to be
changed?

Simon