[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

[David Walser]

--- On Fri, 6/15/12, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> From: Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds
> To: "Mageia development mailing-list" <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
> Cc: "David Walser" <luigiwalser at yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, June 15, 2012, 4:53 AM
> '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

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.