Re: mc.spec

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello, Andrew!
>
> Why did you add mc.charsets to mc.spec?  The rpm build is not using 
> charset support.  In fact, I cannot rebuild the rpm package now.  Even 
> using %configfile(missingok) doesn't work (I'm using rpm 4.0.4).  

Sorry, but I guessed it is part of distribution.

> I don't 
> want to try %ghost, because it's probably not what you meant.  For an 
> explanation of ghost, see 
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm/advanced.html
>
> What is the problem you are trying to solve?  Maybe you don't want those
> who enable charset support to forget about mc.charsets?

Yes.

> I can include all files matching %{_prefix}/lib/mc/*, but not all of them
> are config files.  In fact, RedHat thinks that it's not config files.  
> The source rpm for 4.5.55 from RedHat 7.3 doesn't use %config for the
> files in %{_prefix}/lib/mc/.  Just because something can be tweaked, it
> doesn't mean it has to be preserved on upgrade.

Maybe we can use --with and %{?_with} rpm's machinery?

> Staying on topic of mc.spec, maybe we should compile mc with ncurses to 
> avoid double dependency on both slang (directly) and ncurses (through 
> libgpm).

Well, I repored about problem with ncurses under high pressured Linux.
Also I cannot learn keys and can see some more starnge things with ncurses.