[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

Fri Jun 15 10:53:52 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 15/06/12 01:42 did gyre and gimble:
+> So, maybe we should do something about this.  My preference would
+> have rpm still complain about unpackaged %excluded files, but not
+> die, just give a warning instead.
+
+Personally, I don't see the point in using %exclude to exclude files
+completely from all sub packages. We can just use "rm" in the the
+%install section for that (we typically already do that to remove *.la
+files for example).
+
+So for me %exclude should only operate on subpackage file list and
+should only be useful to undo any wildcard inclusions:
+
+e.g.
+%files
+%{_libdir}/foo/*
+%exclude %{_libdir}/foo/something-in-another-sub-package
+
+%files -n sub
+%{_libdir}/foo/something-in-another-sub-package
+
+
+That kind of thing.
+
+That, to me, seems most logical. I'm not sure what the upstream
+behaviour is, but I would agree that we should follow it all the same
+even if the goal would be to push for upstream changes when needed.
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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