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<H1>[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds</H1>
<B>David Walser</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 15 15:23:29 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>--- On Fri, 6/15/12, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
><i> From: Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>>
</I>><i> Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds
</I>><i> To: "Mageia development mailing-list" <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia-dev at mageia.org</A>>
</I>><i> Cc: "David Walser" <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">luigiwalser at yahoo.com</A>>
</I>><i> Date: Friday, June 15, 2012, 4:53 AM
</I>><i> 'Twas brillig, and David Walser at
</I>><i> 15/06/12 01:42 did gyre and gimble:
</I>><i> > So, maybe we should do something about this.  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>
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.
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