Regex support while packaging files with %ghost

[sshedi]

Is it possible to ghost a regex pattern while packaging files?

A good use case of of this I can think of is, while packaging python modules we can ghost all byte compiled .pyc files and upon package removal, these .pyc files will get auto removed.

For instance, I want to do:

%files
...
%{python3_sitelib}/cloudinit/__pycache__/*.pyc
...

Fedora currently packages all .pyc files along with rpm which makes package size bigger and many byte compiled files might just be present in the system without ever getting used.

Second question in the same context is:
Is it possible to own a directory fully in rpm, upon removal; the directory should get removed without bothering about the content within.

For the same use case as above:

%files
...
%ghost %dir %{python3_sitelib}/cloudinit/__pycache__/
...

All the .pyc files get generated at runtime when used and if package gets removed, __pycache__ dir should be gone entirely.

[sshedi]

I can patch each spec file and do this in %postun but it would be nice to have better solution for this problem.

[sshedi]

Hi @pmatilai, @ffesti any inputs on this?