On 8.7.2013 13:55, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote: >> For consistency and compatibility with older tar versions, please >> use $RCS_TAR_EXCLUDE instead of --exclude-vcs. Also, you only need >> .config, scripts/, include/ and the Makefiles to build external >> modules. But that's an optimization that can be done in a later >> patch. >> > > In v2 of the patch. > >> >> These symlinks should be part of the RPM payload. >> > > This is also in v2 of the same patch. The %post and %postun > scriptlets are no longer there. > > These is one minor oddity in that the symlinks are in the main > package because of that packages file selection. Those symlinks > will dangle until the devel package is installed. > > It might be possible to adjust the file lists of both, but I was wary > of creating a more explicit list in the main package because of a > potential maintenance issue as "install" payload changes. You can say '%exclude /some/path' to exclude a path that would otherwise match an earlier pattern. But I do not know since when RPM supports this. If there is a risk of breaking make rpm on older systems, then let's leave it as is. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
