[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] How to specify a fallback package for unpackaged files? (Discussion #2907)

[Daan De Meyer]

@pmatilai Yes but these packaging specs are downstream. You end up with a chicken and egg problem. If we want to use the downstream packaging specs for building upstream testing packages, the downstream spec needs to be updated before any upstream PR introducing new unpackaged files can be tested and merged. But the downstream spec can only be updated once the upstream PR is merged, because otherwise it would fail to build because the newly added files are not yet installed so you get into a circular dependency.

One way out of this circular dependency is to be able to specify that, when building packages from upstream sources, any unpackaged files go into a fallback package (which in systemd's case would be the main systemd package).

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