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Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Oct 2 08:33:11 UTC 2006


Le Lun 2 octobre 2006 09:50, Michael Schwendt a écrit :

> rpmbuild fails if in the build root no filenames match the %exclude
> pattern, which can happen when using a single spec file for multiple
> targets. Hence "rm -f" is safer, because it works fine also with
> non-existant files.

replace "safer" with "less work for the lazy packager" there

If you expect to remove some files but they're not present *something*
changed upstream. Blindly continuing without any packager review certainly
isn't the "safe" choice.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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