I'm hitting this little annoyance in fedora's package repo: $ fedpkg prep Downloading libvirt-1.2.20.tar.gz ... + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/crobinso/src/fedora/libvirt/libvirt-1.2.20.tar.gz $ git clean -xdf Removing libvirt-1.2.20.tar.gz Skipping repository libvirt-1.2.20/ We git-ify the libvirt directory as part of applying patches in the spec file, but 'git clean' will ignore subfolders that appear to be standalone git repos. Let's just delete the .git directory after we're done with it. --- libvirt.spec.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index ed401f7..9dff994 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -1256,6 +1256,7 @@ if [ $COUNT -gt 0 ]; then fi echo "Applied $COUNT patches" rm -f $PATCHLIST +rm -rf .git %build %if ! %{with_xen} -- 2.5.0