On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 22:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 September 2005 22:30, Chris Adams wrote: > >Once upon a time, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> said: > >> FYI > >> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix > > > >You say "rpm sucks"; I'd say it is the fault of the spec file author not > >fully understanding the spec file syntax. ... and the authors not having reacted though having been notified repeatedly. > > "#" is not a comment in a > >spec file. > > > Since when? Probably ever since rpm exists. Rpm (bogusly) parses comments. > I have several spec files leftover from building things, > and it appears that the # is liberally used in about 1/3rd of them. > The revelant manpage would be nice. http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ch-rpm-inside.html#S1-RPM-INSIDE-COMMENTS Ralf
