[Rpm-maint] Patch: repair nosource/nopatch tag insertion

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Apr 9 18:32:38 UTC 2010


On Friday 09 April 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> Maybe NOSOURCE/NOPATCH should not be internal
> at all, though. They are useful to check if a rpm is "src" or
> "nosrc", there is no other way to detect this.

I don't know if it's correct, but in rpmlint we decide that based on whether 
the source rpm has ghost files or not.  If it does, we treat it as nosrc and I 
believe this method has worked fine.


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