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

[Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx redfish-solutions com>]

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> 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

Actually, the Redhat documentation:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

doesn't make any reference to it either.

What is a good and current tutorial on RPM?

-Philip