Re: New directive for %files section (%exclude)

[Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx redfish-solutions com>]

Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 September 2007, at 20:34:14 (-0700),
> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>   
> >  So I was thinking that having a directive like:
> >
> >  %files
> >  ...
> >  %exclude %{_libexecdir}/mod_sql_mysql.so
> >  %{_libexecdir}/mod_*.so
> >
> >  would be handy.  That is, first all the patterns would be applied and the 
> >  list built, then %exclude directives would be applied and the list whittled 
> >  down.
> >
> >  Does this seem reasonable, or am I missing something?
> >     
>
> You mean aside from the fact that it already works?  :-)
>
> Michael
>
>   

How's that?

Is it in rpm 4.4.2.1?

I was going by the official version of Maximum RPM... which might not 
have been updated to include it yet.

-Philip