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My +</I>>>><i> preference would +</I>>>>><i> have rpm still complain about unpackaged %excluded +</I>>>><i> files, but not +</I>>>>><i> die, just give a warning instead. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Personally, I don't see the point in using %exclude to +</I>>>><i> exclude files +</I>>>><i> completely from all sub packages. We can just use "rm" in +</I>>>><i> the the +</I>>>><i> %install section for that (we typically already do that to +</I>>>><i> remove *.la +</I>>>><i> files for example). +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> So for me %exclude should only operate on subpackage file +</I>>>><i> list and +</I>>>><i> should only be useful to undo any wildcard inclusions: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> e.g. +</I>>>><i> %files +</I>>>><i> %{_libdir}/foo/* +</I>>>><i> %exclude %{_libdir}/foo/something-in-another-sub-package +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> %files -n sub +</I>>>><i> %{_libdir}/foo/something-in-another-sub-package +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> That kind of thing. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> That, to me, seems most logical. I'm not sure what the +</I>>>><i> upstream +</I>>>><i> behaviour is, but I would agree that we should follow it all +</I>>>><i> the same +</I>>>><i> even if the goal would be to push for upstream changes when +</I>>>><i> needed. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Cheers +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Col +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> So, if we want to follow Colin's suggestion, we drop the patch. The patch changes upstream behavior, and adds the extra usage of %exclude, which as Colin and I pointed out, you can just rm things in %install (or patch Makefiles) instead. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> WE DON'T USE ANY PATCH FOR THIS AND WE USE UPSTREAM %EXCLUDE BEHAVIOUR +</I>><i> +</I>><i> i wrote in big letters to be sure everybody reads well. +</I> + +:<i>) +</I> +Yeah, that patch hasn't existed in our code for a long time it seems. + +Both rpm in mga1 and in mga2 don't have it applied. The link David sent +originally is an old release it seems. + + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> + + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016535.html">[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016537.html">[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16536">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16536">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16536">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16536">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |