Re: rawhide report: 20060929 changes

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 22:53 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:12, 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 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

There's the Red Hat RPM Guide -- I'm not sure if it's actually _better_
in this respect (... I've been doing packages for too long to be a good
judgge :-), but it's at least more current.

Online at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ or
purchasable in printed form as well

Jeremy