Hi, it's quite new feature in rpmbuild:
http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Autosetup I.e. since rpm-4.11. Cheers, Jindrich On Jul 13, 2015 1:40 PM, "Marcin Juszkiewicz" <mjuszkiew...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi > > When I moved to Fedora after years of doing Debian packages I noticed that > there is no such thing as patch management when it comes to Fedora > packages. Everyone is using %patch macro with files of random patchlevel > (some even use reverse patches). > > %autosetup was created to handle that but probably less than 5% of > packages use it. Why? > > Is it because no one told that it exists? Or maybe because implementation > has some issues which no one wants to fix? Or other (I exclude laziness of > package maintainers)? > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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