[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

[Pascal Terjan]

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?