Bug 66250

Summary:	extended globbing in %files
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ville Skyttä <scop>
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Ville Skyttä 2002-06-06 19:28:20 UTC

IMHO it would be very useful to be able to use extended globbing in spec 
files' %files sections; "shopt -s extglob" does it for bash. 
 
ATM it doesn't seem to be possible, as I haven't found a way to put any shell 
commands into %files sections.  If a workaround exists, I'd be grateful to 
hear about it...

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-06-07 14:59:42 UTC

Use "%files -f manifest", and generate the
manifest file any way you choose at the end
of the %install scriptlet.

There's no way to do directly in %files, as
this isn't a shell context. If you can map
the "shoopt -s extglob" back to the actual
C API flags for glob(3) and/or fnmatch(3),
I might be able to set that flag by default.
Currently rpm has a conservative "0" value for
the flags, and a spot check of the available
glob flags shows no immediately interesting values.