[Rpm-maint] A few files that don't need to be tracked in mercurial

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Jan 4 14:52:08 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 23:08 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> The following files are generated during the build process, and thus can 
> be removed from hg:
> 
> python/Makefile.in
> lib/getdate.c

removed and commited.

> elfutils/config.sub could also be removed, but I would hope that instead 
> we could just get rid of the whole elfutils directory.

Yeah, we probably should just have instructions on how to build with
bundled copies (elfutils, beecrypt) for platforms that need it.  

> In addition, is there any point in having those gpg keys in the source 
> tree? Fedora and RHEL have their keys in the *-release rpm. I would 
> imagine other distributions do something similar.

As it's supposed to be rpm.org, we should definitely nuke before we do
any form of release.

Paul




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