Unpackaged files checking - oddities

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Jan 10 18:06:10 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 18:33:14 +0100,
  Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Deleting files in %install is considered cleaner by many, because it
>ensures that a file is not found inside the %buildroot anymore and cannot
>be included accidentally either. The drawback is obvious: There ought to
>be a comment explaining why a file is deleted.

In this particular case some stuff gets added depending on whether or 
not the build process finds all of the fonts that are needed. I wanted 
this to fail during build if any were not found, rather than just removing 
any fonts that showed up to be installed. So that I could add needed 
buildrequires and requires right away rather than after a new build was 
out.

When I was testing things I was a bit confused as to why I wasn't seeing 
build failures when I expected them.

And the test worked great. At the end I forgot to add buildrequires for 
some some fonts (even though I did have the requires for them) and a 
build failure told me to fix it right away.


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