Re: cleaning up %install section

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 06:33:01PM +0200, Aaron Lippold wrote:

> I am registering a set of files in a db. Some users only need the
> first set of files, some need all the files from each set in the db. I
> want to allow the option to say, 'I need set1 and set3' etc. etc.
> 
> MyFiles/Set1/file1.1,file1.2,file1.3,...
> .../Set2/file2.1,2.2,2.3,...
> ../Set3/file3.1,3.2,3.3,...
> 
> If they user only wants to install the files in Set1 I want to have an
> option/switch they can pass to say,
> 
> rpm -ihv --install-set1 --install-set3 my.rpm

You could split the RPM into subpackages, each containing one "set".

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