[Fedora-packaging] mass-filed --excludedocs bugs

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 08/10/2009 10:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Panu Matilainen<pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>  writes:
>> ...but that wouldn't do anything to help things like %_install_langs,
>> %_netsharedpath, --excludepath etc. And really, the scriptlets are
>> cluttered enough already without having all of them try to work with
>> each and every obscure rpm switch and "feature."
>
> Yeah.  Are you in favor of just dropping --excludedocs and related
> features, then?  To me, --excludedocs is worth keeping, but the
> rest are not.
>
> Personally I'd be happy if a macro were provided and packagers just
> had to write
> 	%install-info mypackage.info
> and then there's only one place we have to get it right.

We could probably make a scriptlet for it, the problem is that we have 
generally avoided making scriptlets like that for common cases because 
then the Fedora spec files become "Fedora-specific" spec files, much in 
the same way that OpenSUSE spec files have traditionally not worked 
anywhere else.

Now, if upstream RPM felt that it was compelling enough to provide such 
a macro by default, we'd certainly leverage it in Fedora.

~spot