Does %file have option to copy a (big) directory except a particular file in it?

[Heng-Zhou]

I would like to use %file section in def file to copy a big directory into container, but for same reason a file in this directory is unreadable (thus uncopiable). This would cause the copy and the whole building process to exit. Does %file have any option to copy a (big) directory except a particular file in it? The Go file.Match syntax does not have exclusion pattern. Currently, I manually write files/sub-directories under the big directory but it is too tedious; I hope there is an exclusion option in %file section of def file that could make it easy. Thanks.

[dtrudg]

No. There is no exclusion option. As you noted, the filepath.Match syntax is used - so there is no negation / exclusion.