Dec 4, 2021 9:09:24 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I've been trying to bundle the current ansible-5.0.1 release as an RPM
> for Fedora and EPEL use. Leaving aside the peculiar decisions to
> replace the pypi.org "ansible" tarball with a tarball of roughly 150
> modules from the "ansiblee-collections" repos, and moving the actual
> ansible software to a distinct python tarball called "ansible-core"
> without changing the source repo or the actual critical installed
> python modules, the new "ansible" has more than 300 files called
> "README.md" and more than 100 files called "LICENSE.md".
>
> This breaks building RPMs for EPEL 8 or Fedora, because the '%doc' and
> '%license' macros strip off the subdirectories of the files and
> install them directly at the top of the docdir.
>
> Basicely these only generate one file:
>
> %doc README.md
> %doc dir1/README.md
> %doc dir2/README.md
>
> %license LICENSE.md
> %license dir1/LICENSE
> %license dir2/LICENSE.md
>
> When compiled, these would only produce:
>
> /usr/share/doc/package-%{fersion}/README.md
> /usr/share/doc/package-%{fersion}/LICENSE.md
>
> RHEL 7 didn't have this problem. I'm not sure if other folks have
> noticed this for tools that are built with multiple internal tarballs.
> The new "ansible" tarball is fairly unique ints authors insistance on
> putting more than one hundred distinct third party packages in the
> same master tarball. But for now, this is going to cause a license and
> documentation problem in packaging it due to an "optimization" of
> stripping out the directory names of document files and licenses.
>
> Does anyone know a decent workaround, or a specfile setting to disable
> this filename stripping and restore the RHEL 7 behavior?
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Take a look at this PR[1] on Fedora's `ansible` package for a potential solution.
Thanks,
Maxwell
[1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ansible/pull-request/19
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