A new .spec file for Mercurial on Fedora

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Mar 26 08:15:57 CDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:51 -0700, Eric Hopper wrote:
> The attached file is the spec file I've used for my personal build of
> Mercurial for Fedora.  It contains numerous enhancements over both the
> included spec file and the spec file for Fedora.
> 
> Here is a possibly incomplete list:
> 
> * The hgk extension is installed in a way that just works.
> 
> * The gpg and hgk extensions have been split out as separate packages as
>   they both have important dependencies that the rest of Mercurial
>   doesn't.
> 
> * Some useful scripts, including the hgwebdir.cgi and hgweb.cgi scripts
>   as well as the logo .svg file are now installed in
>   /usr/share/mercurial.
> 
> * The mergetools.hgrc and sample.hgrc files are installed in
>   /usr/share/doc.

mergetools.hgrc /should/ be installed globally by the packager. Where
"globally" should be just varies too much for us to do it in setup.py.

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