Michael Jennings wrote:
On Friday, 14 September 2007, at 10:39:19 (-0600), Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:in most of RPMs I build I have pretty complicated rules of file inclusion/exclusion. esp. (Logical AND/OR/XOR) which is easier done with find/grep/sed then any combination of excludes.But we were talking about *his* situation, not yours, and your suggestion is clearly wrong for that case.Besides it keeps SPEC file portable for those old systems that run RPM 4.0 (which I have quite a few).Again, not applicable to his situation. Michael
Gentlemen! They were both good suggestions, and I thank you equally.I decided to go with the %exclude suggestion, just because it's "new and improved", and to give reassurance to whomever might have added it and then had second thoughts that it was indeed useful... ;-)
The globbing that %exclude uses is somewhat limited, i.e. it doesn't allow .{a,la} expansions, so in that case, using find/echo with egrep -v might have been useful... had things gotten any hairier, I would have probably used a dynamically generated list. Especially if my build were generating fat binaries (i.e. both i686 and x86_64) and I needed to triage them...
-Philip