[OpenAFS] In the RPM spec file, what is the goal of the special fedora option?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:28:02 -0500


> > I note that kmodtool distributed with openafs-1.4.6 says it is
> > customized by Simon Wilkinson.
>
> It adds computation of the "Version" for the spec file.
>
> > That means I erased the pre-existing version of kmodtool that I had in
> > my SOURCE tree and I'm a little disappointed there.  When I build some
> > other rpm, it is likely that kmodtool willl get erased again.  If
> > Simon has something vital in there, it might be better to re-name that
> > file kmodtool-afs so that it is not obliterating the standard one.
>
> That's... not really clever to count on. But, this is easy enough to accomodate.
>
And will be fixed in 1.4.7.