On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Tom \spot\ Callaway wrote:
On 03/20/2009 04:06 PM, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
Pity. A %license (ie., like the %doc) field would be nice to have.
Indeed. This is where I think the most interesting work needs to be
done. Once rpm knows that a %license file is a special type of %doc that
gets installed even if --excludedocs is passed, we have solved one of
the big issues for the OLPC folks.
Heh, actually rpm has had %license special file attribute since rpm 2.5.4,
it just doesn't really do much anything at all. It also doesn't play well
together with %doc, AND since the ancient copyright -> license tag change,
%license as file attribute has gotten globbered with side-effect macro
from the License: tag, so you'll have to use %%license in the %files
section.
Other than that, making --excludedocs not affect %license files is
literally a one-liner.
Making %license use in spec saner is somewhat more complicated (due to the
funny little historical issues listed above). I take it you'd like it to
behave exactly like %doc, like
%files
%doc README NEWS ChangeLog
%license COPYING
%{_bindir}/*
...which would place COPYING into the default docdir, but with the license
attribute set. Right?
- Panu -
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