[Yum] [PATCH] Adds an excludedocs option

Garrick Staples garrick at usc.edu
Tue May 11 06:01:48 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:57:55PM -0400, seth vidal alleged:
> 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).
> > 
> > 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?

I've not tested this, but would adding "%_excludedocs 1" to your ~/.rpmmacros
have the same effect?

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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