automatically include files in %doc only if they are not empty

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 14:58:03 UTC 2008


On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:55:07 +0100, Till Maas wrote:

> Hiyas,
> 
> on a package I recently packaged for Fedora, there is an empty TODO file 
> included. Is there an easy way to mark this file in %files to be included 
> only if it is not empty? This would make it easier to not forget to add the 
> file in case it will be filed with some contents in a future release.

%prep and %check : easy enough to add a bash conditional expression
(e.g. which exits with failure if the file exists and has a size greater
than zero -- or the opposite, a zero size, for files you want to exclude).




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