On 06/05/2014 07:03 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> 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? traditionally, .spec files sometimes mentioned things like 'BlahBlah tool for Red Hat Enterprise Linux' , and we need to change those to say 'for CentOS Linux' typically, found in the %description section, but could be in other places. Also, stuff like httpd has Vendor setup in the .spec file, we need to change that to CentOS as well ( but I am struggling to think of a second example off the top of my head, so might just be a case of do it manually once, and forget about it ). - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc