[csw-maintainers] excluding components from a package

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Am 30.07.2013 um 20:20 schrieb Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>> I have an issue as follows:
>> 
>> - package pp has in its PKGFILES a set of files fp, explicitly defined
>> - package pd has in its PKGFILES a set of file fd, implicitly defined
>>  through PKGFILES_DEVEL macro
>> - the packages are defined in pp, pd order
>> - the fp set is include in the fd set
>> 
>> How can I exclude from fd the content of fp, i.e. complement it?
>> 
>> Is there a known way or should I resort to my magic wand?
>
>
> No magic wand needed :-)
>
> You can either use the respective expression from PKGFILES_DEVEL explicitly
> or reset the components from PKGFILES_DEVEL to empty which belong to fp as
> in the composite variable defined here:
>   http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/gar.pkg.mk#L383
> like
>   PKGFILES_DEVEL_LIBTOOL =
> to exclude *.la files from fd.

I'm not sure that this will do as fp is composed of include files,
sub-tree of $(includedir), and fd contains all the relevant files from
$(includedir). This is why I thought about the magic wand. In fact the
question is how to exclude from pd some sub-trees.

-- 
Peter