Re: cleaning up %install section

["Aaron Lippold" <lippold gmail com>]

Yes that's true but I was hoping to only have to maintain one .spec
file and such. Ah well, maybe the KISS approach is best in this case.

Also, is there a way I can define a "function" in my spec file?

Aaron

On 6/25/07, Jos Vos <jos xos nl> wrote:
> 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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