Hi. An interesting question popped out during a PR review [1].
Should %license always be specified relative and installed to /usr/share/licenses like this:
%license LICENSE
Or is it totally OK to specify it absolutely like this:
%license %{_whatnot}/%{name}/LICENSE
?
Technically, both is possible and behaves like %doc.
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python38/pull-request/33
Thanks,
"MH" == Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com writes:
MH> Should %license always be specified relative and installed to MH> /usr/share/licenses like this:
MH> %license LICENSE
MH> Or is it totally OK to specify it absolutely like this:
MH> %license %{_whatnot}/%{name}/LICENSE
As far as I understand things, both are quite OK. If the upstream build system actually installs the license file as part of %make_install then you would certainly mark that instead of making another copy. Otherwise you could use the first form. I know of no requirement that the license files actually be placed in %_licensedir.
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