Re: F35 Change proposal: RPM 4.17 (System-Wide Change proposal)

[Mamoru TASAKA]

Hello:

Miro Hrončok wrote on 2021/04/01 6:45:
>  On 31. 03. 21 21:52, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > * Strict checking for unpackaged content in builds
>   > ...
> > * Many existing packages will fail to build due to the stricter
> > buildroot content checking. Fixing this in the packaging is always
> > backwards compatible. We could temporarily set
> > `%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0` in rawhide to alleviate initial
> > impact if necessary.
>  
>  This is my main concern with this update.
>  
>  tl;dr If you %exclude something and there is no other subpackage to own the files, the
> build fails:
>  
>  
>  This fails:
>  
>     %install
>     ...
>     touch %{buildroot}/foo %{buildroot}/bar
>  
>     %files
>     /
>     %exclude /foo 
As the files Miro has attached shows, this affects not a few rubygems related
packages. Many rubygems related packages has: %exclude %gem_cache .

Regards,
Mamoru