Re: Patch for 1.6.21 to make rpmbuild work

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:21:56PM +0100, Frank Schaeckermann wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to create a rpm package for 1.6.21 but encountered a few problems.
> 
> After fiddling with doc/Makefile.in

doc/Makefile.in is automatically generated from doc/Makefile.am.
You should patch doc/Makefile.am instead.

> to include a check if there is a file 'dir' in the info directory
> before executing install-info and fixing the parted.spec and
> parted.spec.in to include the parted.info.gz and execution of
> install-info as post-install and pre-uninstall, everything worked
> fine.

What happened without this check?

> The attached patch contains the changes in the three files based on the 
> distributed parted-1.6.21.tar.gz.

> diff -r -C 3 parted-1.6.21/doc/Makefile.in parted-1.6.21-new/doc/Makefile.in

Most free software people prefer to read "diff -u" output.

Thanks,
Andrew