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[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:12:38 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:

> 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.

rpmbuild fails if in the build root no filenames match the %exclude
pattern, which can happen when using a single spec file for multiple
targets. Hence "rm -f" is safer, because it works fine also with
non-existant files.