[packages/microcode-data-intel] - rel 2; produce single file that can be used by grub

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Sat Sep 9 20:20:17 CEST 2017


On Saturday 09 of September 2017, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On 09.09.2017 10:40, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 of September 2017, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> >> On 04.09.2017 10:14, arekm wrote:
> >>> +cp -p intel-microcode2ucode-single $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sbindir}
> >> 
> >> what is the point of packaging the binaries that are used just to build
> >> this package?
> >> 
> >> not packaging those can make whole package noarch...
> > 
> > There is a TODO in the spec just no one did it.
> 
> todo is there because nobody knows purpose of previous binaries, and
> therefore afraid to make changes risking getting beaten up in lists later.
> 
> you just added new executable, so you must have purpose/reasoning.

Added to match what's already in spec.

The only reason I could imagine is to manually generate microcode files from 
manually download tarball from intel.com. Likely no one does that.

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