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<H1>[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds</H1>
<B>D.Morgan</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 15 11:38:07 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
><i> 'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 15/06/12 01:42 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>><i> So, maybe we should do something about this.  My preference would
</I>>><i> have rpm still complain about unpackaged %excluded 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 exclude files
</I>><i> completely from all sub packages. We can just use "rm" in the the
</I>><i> %install section for that (we typically already do that to remove *.la
</I>><i> files for example).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So for me %exclude should only operate on subpackage file 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 upstream
</I>><i> behaviour is, but I would agree that we should follow it all the same
</I>><i> even if the goal would be to push for upstream changes when needed.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Cheers
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Col
</I>
Hi,
see with upstream. We won't change the behaviour of rpm for this "only
in mageia" and be inconsistent with fedora/opensuse/...
cheers
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