2 posts tagged with "specfile"

Have you ever wanted to make changes in an RPM spec file programmatically? specfile library has been created for that very purpose. It is a pure Python library that allows you to conveniently edit different parts of a spec file while doing its best to keep the resulting changeset minimal (no unnecessary whitespace changes etc.).

We have recently made some fixes to the process of handling the Release field regarding the %autorelease macro, so let's take that opportunity to explain how it works.