[Bug 169716] Review Request: fortune-firefly

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Summary: Review Request: fortune-firefly


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169716





------- Additional Comments From mpeters at mac.com  2005-10-04 14:44 EST -------
I don't know what other packagers do.
If they package for Fedora Extras and do not generate the .dat file inside the
build process, that needs to be brought to attention because it is not proper.

I can't read the .dat file with a text reader, which poses a problem because
there is not a way to verify that it was generated from the text file.

The fortune-mod package in Fedora Extras does this:

# Recreate random access files for the added fortune files.
for i in \
    kernelnewbies bofh-excuses tao hitchhiker \
    osfortune humorix-misc humorix-stories \
; do util/strfile $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{CookieDir}/$i ; done

It generates the .dat files in the rpm. That is the proper way to do it.

What other fortune packages that are not reviewed by Extras do doesn't matter,
but I suspect that many of them generate the .dat file in the spec file as well.
If they don't, they aren't properly packaged.

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