On Thu Nov 3, 2022 at 06:50 +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> When will this silliness ever stop? It just does not make sense to
> explicitly list every single file in the RPM. Wildcards are often the only
> reasonable way.
Nobody is saying that you have to list every single file in the package
or that e.g. adding `%{_datadir}/%{name}/` to %files is prohibited. It
is simply not allowed to glob absolutely everything under a shared
directory. For instance, ansible-core installs 11 different binaries
into %{_bindir} that all start with `ansible` that would be tedious to
list out manually. Instead of globing all of %{_bindir} with
`%{_bindir}/*, I could add `%{_bindir}/ansible*` which complies with
this guideline and is just as simple.
I think this is a sensible rule as it prevents conflicts and other
issues from popping up on updates when a package's build scripts start
installing new files. When reviewing Go packages, I've caught multiple
issues with `%{_bindir}/*` globs that hide conflicting files and/or
test/utility binaries that shouldn't be shipped to begin with.
Unfortunately, go2rpm generates specfiles with these globs by default.
FWIW, this is a SHOULD guideline not a MUST guideline, but I don't see a
case where such broad globs are justifiable.
As for the other complaint, I subscribe to the FPC issue tracker[1] to
to keep up with guidelines changes. There's also the packaging list, but
not a lot of active discussion happens there. I agree that it would be
beneficial to make changes more visible.
[1]: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee
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