Re: [HELP] Changing source archive in srpm

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> This sounds fishy. I'm not sure it ever makes sense to remove a file
> from an upstream tarball for 'size/redundancy issues'. After all, we're
> not shipping the source tarball anywhere but in the SRPMs, which are
> only on mirrors, and I'm not aware of some huge space pressure problem
> there that you'd be solving by stripping files from tarballs.

If the tarball has to be modified anyway because it contains illegal stuff,
also removing some unneeded huge file isn't going to hurt much. But
deviating from the upstream tarball just for that would be a bad idea, of
course.

        Kevin Kofler