We need a way to remove doc from installation of RPM but preserve Licenses

There's (a very little used) %license fille attribute that can be used to mark licenses in %files.

Then rpm --excludedoc logic can be tweaked to install licenses (but not other docs).

Its likely just as easy to extract the License: tag from all *.rpm packages and
then cross reference that with package <-> licenses <-> text outside
of packaging.

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/635478

(In reply to comment #1)
> There's (a very little used) %license fille attribute that can be used to mark
> licenses in %files.
>
> Then rpm --excludedoc logic can be tweaked to install licenses (but not other
> docs).
>
> Its likely just as easy to extract the License: tag from all *.rpm packages and
> then cross reference that with package <-> licenses <-> text outside
> of packaging.
>
> tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/635478

How about COPYRIGHT and README? they need to be marked as %license and %readme in .spec respectively, this will need some efforts.

(comment from the tracker bug)

Are you sure "COPYRIGHT" and "README" need additional
marking in *.rpm metadata? The names are already self identifying
markup.

But if you need %license/%readme to be set automagically when
files are named as above, that's about 4 lines of code to patch
into rpmbuild (ignoring the possibility of false positives from mis-named
files for the moment).

Are you sure "COPYRIGHT" and "README" need additional
marking in *.rpm metadata? The names are already self identifying
markup.

But if you need %license/%readme to be set automagically when
files are named as above, that's about 4 lines of code to patch
into rpmbuild (ignoring the possibility of false positives from mis-named
files for the moment).

(In reply to comment #3)
> (comment from the tracker bug)
>
> Are you sure "COPYRIGHT" and "README" need additional
> marking in *.rpm metadata? The names are already self identifying
> markup.

These files should be installed even if we use --excludedoc, but now they are marked as %doc in .spec.

>
> But if you need %license/%readme to be set automagically when
> files are named as above, that's about 4 lines of code to patch
> into rpmbuild (ignoring the possibility of false positives from mis-named
> files for the moment).

This is a good suggestion and can reduce our effort dramatically :-)