rpm: %exclude should be counted negative

[Jeff Johnson]

Tracker

[Andreas-hanke (andreas-hanke)]

Clarifying: What triggers the unexpected behaviour is

%files
%{_libdir}/lib*-%{version}.so

%files devel
%{_libdir}/lib*.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/lib*-%{version}.so

lib*-%{version}.so is counted twice because it matches %{_libdir}/lib*-%{version}.so and %{_libdir}/lib*.so.

So %{_libdir}/lib*-%{version}.so is strictly speaking indeed packaged twice and then one of the copies is removed again via %exclude, but %exclude doesn't do what I expect it to do in that it prevents files from being packaged without caring about the payload size.

This can be fixed by counting %exclude'd files negative instead of counting them zero.

[Jeff Johnson (n3npq)]

Tracker

[Jeff Johnson (n3npq)]

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/633753

[Tchvatal (tchvatal)]

Thank you for reporting your bug.

Please report it to upstream if you are still interested in its resolution:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues