[Yum] [PATCH] Adds an excludedocs option

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue May 11 00:57:55 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:24 +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
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> The attached patch against yum 2.0.6 adds an excludedocs option.  
> Specifying "excludedocs=1" in the confid file makes yum exclude the docs 
> from the rpm install (like rpm --excludedocs).
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> It doesn't work on some badly written RPMs which either don't mark the 
> docs as documentation or expect the docs to always be installed, but 
> that's a problem with the RPMs themselves, not with yum.

So, your patch is fine - but I'm trying to figure out where to draw the
line for options like these. I understand excludedocs - but if
excludedocs comes in, why not --nodeps or --replacefiles?

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worthwhile to have a yum rpm macros file
so anything that anyone wants to set for the default yum rpm transaction
set flags can be set there and not clutter up the yum config file with
rpmts-specific actions.

Thoughts?

-sv





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