[Rpm-maint] Support "magic_and_path" flag in fileaattrs

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Tue May 17 13:00:27 UTC 2011


On 05/16/2011 07:18 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote:
>
> This patch adds support for a new fileattrs flag, "magic_and_path".
> Normally files get fed into the dependency helper if either the
> path regexp or the magic regexp matches. With the flag, both
> have to match.
>
> (If you don't like the name, feel free to choose a better one.)

Heh. The biggest reason this functionality (which is indeed quite 
necessary) wasn't in rpm 4.9.0 was lack of a good name :)

I could easily live with "magic_and_path", but I think we'd want similar 
switch for excludes too, and there it'll get a bit clumsy with 
"exclude_magic_and_path" or such. One possibility would be adding a 
separate exclude_flags and then "magic_and_path" would fit there as well.

	- Panu -


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