[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

Fri Jun 15 11:38:07 CEST 2012

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> '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
+
+Hi,
+
+see with upstream. We won't change the behaviour of rpm for this "only
+in mageia" and be inconsistent with fedora/opensuse/...
+
+cheers
+