[Fedora-packaging] remove source files

[Scott Frankel]

Thanks for the tips and suggestions for best practices!
Scott




On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> 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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