[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

Fri Jun 15 12:20:03 CEST 2012

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:38 AM, D.Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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/...
+
+Isn't it the upstream behavior already that he is describing?
+