Full Licence field
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 23 06:21:12 UTC 2009
Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Making %license use in spec saner is somewhat more complicated (due to
> the funny little historical issues listed above). I take it you'd like
> it to behave exactly like %doc, like
>
> %files
> %doc README NEWS ChangeLog
> %license COPYING
> %{_bindir}/*
>
> ...which would place COPYING into the default docdir, but with the
> license attribute set. Right?
This would require rebuilding all the packages. Perhaps it is more
useful to look at a centralized system policy (overridable) that
automatically tags particular files as licenses by applying heuristics.
Eliminate the %files section instead of adding more to it.
Rahul
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