On 2003-08-05(Tue) 14:04:01 +0200, Pixel wrote:
> > > hum, as for me, i really prefer using many wildcards.
> >
> > However that also contributes to mis-packaging, e.g. including
> > /usr/share/aclocal into other packages. $mandir is not problematic,
> > but $datadir and $libdir can be.
>
> but i used %{_mandir}/*/*, %{_gamesbindir}/*, %{_menudir}/*, %{_infodir}/*
> which must not be problematic.Hope I'm not too picky: %_infodir/dir Generally the other macros above won't cause problems, what I am stressing is mainly about $datadir and $libdir, which has been causing trouble since pre-historic times. > > Besides, with less overuse of wildcards, packager will be more alerted > > when something changed (file additions, directory moving etc), which is > > not a bad thing. > > this is somewhat new with the unpackaged file error. > > but when i upload a package, i always diff the file lists [1]. So as for > me, i prefer using many wildcards. > > [1] using this script: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~prigaux/Upload Hey, you haven't told anybody you have done aditional checks :-) Abel -- Abel Cheung Linux counter #256983 | http://counter.li.org GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) | http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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