createrepo: file-pattern-match and dir-pattern-match?

Hi everyone,

createrepo's genpkgmetadata.py has some file-pattern-match and
dir-pattern-match options, that basically make sure to some file and dir
provides to primary.xml. Currently, they default to:

    cmds['file-pattern-match'] = ['.*bin\/.*', '^\/etc\/.*','^\/usr\/lib\/sendmail$']
    cmds['dir-pattern-match'] = ['.*bin\/.*', '^\/etc\/.*']

To make real use of these file and dir patterns, we would need to somehow
put their values into primary.xml, so that a package manager can decide if
it needs to pull in filelist.xml or not (based on the information that it
has in primary.xml and the requires a certain package might have)?

Thoughts, opinions?


Thanks,
Christoph
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Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)