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Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Mon Oct 2 10:04:21 UTC 2006


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 08:12:38PM -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 20:41 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > What-no-why-how-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
> > > Is it being moved to extra?
> > 
> > I'd guess it's certainly possible, and it's probably going to get done faster 
> > if you submit it. ;-) Creating an Extras package from a Core subpackage is 
> > actually pretty easy, take the Core specfile, disable the build of everything 
> > you don't need built for that subpackage, add rm commands for everything else, 
> > and use just the file list of the former subpackage.
> 
> I see the use of rm commands all the time in spec files.  Can anyone
> explain why this is used instead of the %exclude directive?  Not
> important, just curious because excluding files seems like a much safer
> and elegant solution.

AFAIK the *debuginfo subpackages are created from the full content of the
%{buildroot} tree, not only from files listed in %files.
So, if you don't rm and use %exclude, the debuginfo packages might be
substantially bigger than they really need to be.

	Jakub




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