[Fedora-packaging] remove source files
Tom Lane
tgl at redhat.com
Thu Feb 11 00:35:39 UTC 2010
Ville =?iso-8859-1?q?Skytt=E4?= <ville.skytta at iki.fi> writes:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010, Scott Frankel wrote:
>> I'm using a simple spec file to package a python-based application for
>> distribution. When passed to rpmbuild, it creates an rpm with both
>> source (.py) and bytecode compiled (.pyc) files. I'd like to remove
>> the source files from the rpm.
> Try this in %files:
> %exclude /path/to/stuff/*.py
Even easier: after running "make install" in the specfile script, just
"rm" the files you don't want from the install tree.
As noted, this particular case doesn't seem to be a good idea, but when
you do want to exclude files it's certainly easy enough.
regards, tom lane
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