[Yum] [PATCH] Adds an excludedocs option

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue May 11 01:31:38 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 21:27 -0400, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Monday, 10 May 2004, at 20:57:55 (-0400),
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Rather than creating Yet Another Macros File, why not add a simple
> keyword set to yum.conf and the command line?  Something like:
> 
> rpmtsflags=excludedocs repackage nosignature
> 

B/c then I have to follow each rpm release and multiple rpm releases
with any change in the syntax or formatting there so my command line
parsing can:
1. tell you when something doesn't exist
2. make any sense at all
3. be reasonably documented

-sv





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