removal suggestion: port rpm

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Mon Aug 19 05:51:02 PDT 2013


Hi,

while going over package1.0[1] for this year's GSoC project I noticed
some problems in where port rpm (implemented in portrpm.tcl[2]) puts the
generated rpm packages (specifically a missing default value for
package.destpath). I considered attempting to fix those, but it is not
clear to me what purpose this code ever served and I don't think it is
still being used.

Is anyone still using port rpm/srpm/dpkg? If not I would remove those
and their dependencies.

To: Anders, because he was the last to commit a functional change to
srpm and rpm.


[1] http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/package1.0/
[2] http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/package1.0/portrpm.tcl

-- 
Clemens Lang



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