[csw-maintainers] gsed 4.1.5 in testing

[Ross Macduff]

Excerpts from Sebastian Kayser's message of Fri Mar 20 10:23:16 -0400 2009:
> Ross Macduff wrote:
> > Excerpts from Sebastian Kayser's message of Fri Mar 20 09:21:39 -0400 2009:
> >> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> >>> Am 19.03.2009 um 01:37 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
> >>>> * Ross Macduff <rmacduff at opencsw.org> wrote:
> >>>>> gsed 4.1.5 is now available for testing: gsed-4.1.5,REV=2009.03.09
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please let me know if there are any issues with it.
> >>>> gsed now contains a file which is also in CSWiconv
> >>>>
> >>>>  /opt/csw/lib/charset.alias
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't know where it really belongs, but i guess we should avoid
> >>>> prompting the users to answer whether they want to install conflicting
> >>>> files.
> >>> This file should only be included in libiconv and excluded just like
> >>> info.dir from all other packages. Just set EXTRA_EXCLUDE_FILES
> >>> accordingly.
> >> Dago, do you mean EXTRA_MERGE_EXCLUDE_FILES? EXTRA_EXCLUDE_FILES didn't
> >> work for me with gar/v2 revision 3797.
> >>
> >> Sebastian
> > 
> > I've even tried using EXTRA_PKGFILES_EXCLUDED, but that doesn't seem to
> > do the trick either.
> > 
> > I know I could resort to manually editing the prototype to exclude
> > lib/charset.alias and then repackage, but I was hoping for a better
> > solution.
> 
> Ross, did you try EXTRA_MERGE_EXCLUDE_FILES (note the _MERGE_)? For me
> this worked when i filled it with the absolute paths of the files i
> wanted to exclude. In your example this would be
> 
>   EXTRA_MERGE_EXCLUDE_FILES = $(libdir)/charset.alias
> 
> Sebastian

Thanks Sebastian!  That did the trick.

Ross