Re: Howto use %exclude with %doc files

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:45:38PM +0200, Patrick wrote:

> I was in #rpm yesterday asking how to use %exclude with %doc files and
> from the information that jasonc gave me (thanks!) it seems I'll need to
> do this manually. Just checking in to see if anyone else has any
> suggestions. Basically what I would like to do is:
> 
> %files
> %doc README-*
> %exclude README-package.txt
> 
> %files package
> %doc README-package.txt
> 
> This does not work. Google had several examples with %exclude but they
> all use non %doc files. Does anyone know how to handle this other than
> manually listing the files in the %doc section?

The %doc arguments are directly passed as arguments to "cp -fr" or so
AFAIK, so there is no way to use %exclude there.

Try to use shell-style regexps to minimize the list.  I've used this
trick in the past and it usually is doable, e.g. something like:

%files
%doc README-[a-oq-z]* README-perhaps-something-else.txt

%files package
%doc README-package.txt

P.S.
Be aware of locale-specific ordering.  I think the expressions are
evaluated with LANG=C, so [a-c] does not include "B" (luckily),
while in UTF-8 locales it does.

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