Bug 66250 – extended globbing in %files

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Bug 66250 - extended globbing in %files

Summary:	extended globbing in %files

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm-build (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2002-06-06 15:28 EDT by Ville Skyttä
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-06-06 15:28:26 EDT
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Description Ville Skyttä 2002-06-06 15:28:20 EDT

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 10:59:42 EDT

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.

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