Неприятная особенность rpmbuild -- порядок выполнения некоторых стадий
сборки пакета на стадии %files. Как я понял, секция %doc, в сущности, не
учитывается в списке %files, а просто копируется в
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%_docdir/%name-%version на самой последней стадии (после
brp).

В результате %doc конфликтует с %exclude.

Кроме того, в %_docdir файлы обрабатываются по-разному, в зависимости от
того, установлены они на стадии %install или на стадии %files с помощью
%doc.

Пример:

%files
%_bindir/*
%_mandir/man?/*
%_menudir/%name
%_iconsdir/*.xpm
%doc AUTHORS BUGS ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL NEWS README SITES THANKS TODO
%doc contrib
%exclude %_docdir/%name-%version/*/CVS
%exclude %_docdir/%name-%version/*/*/CVS
%exclude %_docdir/%name-%version/*/*/*/CVS
%exclude %_docdir/%name-%version/*/Makefile*

$ rpm -ba elinks.spec
...
Processing files: elinks-0.4.0-alt1rc2
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/CVS
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/*/CVS
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/*/*/CVS
error: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/Makefile*
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.60294
+ umask 022
+ /bin/mkdir -p /home/at/RPM/BUILD
+ cd /home/at/RPM/BUILD
+ cd elinks-0.4.0rc2
+ DOCDIR=/var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ cp -prL AUTHORS BUGS ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL NEWS README SITES THANKS TODO /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ chmod -R go-w /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ chmod -R a+rX /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ cp -prL contrib /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ chmod -R go-w /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ chmod -R a+rX /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0
+ exit 0


RPM build errors:
    File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/CVS
    File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/*/CVS
    File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/*/*/CVS
    File not found by glob: /var/tmp/elinks-buildroot/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.4.0/*/Makefile*

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А по второму разу запаковывается, т.к. файлы уже скопировались:

$ rpm -ba --short-circuit elinks.spec
Processing files: elinks-0.4.0-alt1rc2
Finding Provides (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)
Executing(Provides): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5802
+ umask 022
+ /bin/mkdir -p /home/at/RPM/BUILD
+ cd /home/at/RPM/BUILD
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides
+ exit 0
Finding Requires (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)
Executing(Requires): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11340
+ umask 022
+ /bin/mkdir -p /home/at/RPM/BUILD
+ cd /home/at/RPM/BUILD
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires
+ exit 0
Provides: webclient links /usr/bin/links
PreReq: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
Requires(post): /bin/sh
Requires(postun): /bin/sh
Requires: bash coreutils gawk libbz2.so.1 libbz2.so.1(BZLIB_1.0) libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libcrypto.so.0 libdl.so.2 libgpm.so.1 libm.so.6 libssl.so.0 libz.so.1 perl-base sed sh tcsh
Wrote: /home/at/RPM/SRPMS/elinks-0.4.0-alt1rc2.src.rpm
Wrote: /home/at/RPM/RPMS/i686/elinks-0.4.0-alt1rc2.i686.rpm
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Вот так вот.