Bug 14531
| Summary: | RPM-4.0 --excludedocs | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Art Boulatov <art> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | art |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-04-03 12:17:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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You're correct, this will be fixed in rpm-4.1. This issue depends on whether a directory can/should have the attribute %doc. The current implementation of file attributes in rpm forbids directories to have either %doc or %config attributes because directories may contain files other than documentation (and so should not be excluded with --excludedocs). Identifying whether a directory has contents other than documentation is non-local and expensive (read: it's not just a single bit test). I've marked the code, but I don't believe that the implementation is justified at this time. Fixed in rpm CVS, should be in rpm-4.0.3-0.4 and later. |
With the --excludedocs install option RPM-4.0 creates empty %{name}-%{version} dirs under %{_defaultdocdir}: rpm -i --excludedocs -vv sysvinit-2.78-1art.i686.rpm: > D: file: /usr/share/doc/sysvinit-2.78 action: create > D: file: /usr/share/doc/sysvinit-2.78/HISTORY action: skipnstate > D: file: /usr/share/doc/sysvinit-2.78/Install action: skipnstate > D: file: /usr/share/man/en/man1/last.1.bz2 action: skipnstate There should be a 'skipnstate' instead of 'create' in the first line.