On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 22:53 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:12, Jon Nettleton wrote: > > > I see the use of rm commands all the time in spec files. Â Can anyone > > > explain why this is used instead of the %exclude directive? Â Not > > > important, just curious because excluding files seems like a much safer > > > and elegant solution. > > > Lack of education? Maybe the developer isn't aware of the %exclude, or > > would rather just remove the files anyway. I use rm to remove static > > libraries rather than exclude them. > 1) I believe rpm has a bug where %exclude'd files are counted towards the space the installed package will use on the system. 2) http://www.fedora.redhat.com/docs/developers-guide/s1-rpm-more-guidelines.html point #4 discourages fixing the filelist in %files. I don't know how widely disseminated this documentation has been (and the idea behind it is a tad dubious...) > What is sorely needed is a RPM reference... the "Maximum RPM" book is nice > as narrative, but almost useless at the time of designing a new .spec file This would be helpful. But it is a very large task. A start has been made on this several times but I don't know if any of those are stil actively maintaining content. -Toshio
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