[CentOS] Would this be considered a packaging bug?

Sat Feb 25 14:19:54 UTC 2017

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote:
> My understanding was that platform specific patches were suppose to have the %if macro where the patch is applied, but should not be where the source for the patch is defined.

It could be that the packagers did not want the patches distributed with the RHEL source packages as well (maybe something licensing related?  Or not distributable as part of RHEL?).  I agree that its annoying because you can’t take the RHEL srpm and rebuild on Fedora.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>