On 12/08/10 16:21, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu> writes: > >> Ian Jackson wrote: >>>> I'd much rather you could just write in your .dsc a set of glob >>>> patterns for files to remove, somehow, which dpkg-source would remove >>>> when you unpacked it (unless you told it not to). > >> Well, I see no .dsc field that would allow such a thing. dpkg-source has >> the options to ignore files when building a source package, but this is >> the closest match I found, but I have only used it for a couple of >> months, not developped it. :-) > > I think Ian was saying that he'd like dpkg-source to add that feature, not > that it already existsed today and was something you could use.
CDBS currently has get-orig-source rule which does that. You just define a variable with a space separated list of globs and it excludes them when fetching the source from the web. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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