I already noticed that RH8 with rpmbuild 4.2.something issued warnings
about files in the build root but not in the %files list.
So some developer in my shop got Fedora core 2 which comes with rpmbuild
4.3.something, and that warning became a fatal error.
Is there any way to provide a list or a pattern of files which are OK to
have in the build root but not in the %files list? In particular, I have
one file which I don't really want to put elsewhere and which I need to
leave around to suit rpm: the file containing the file list.
In my rpms, I usually build the install time location using constructs
such as this:
mkdir -p .%{prefix}/bin
cp <stuff> .%{prefix}/bin
cp -r <morestuff>/lib .%{prefix}
...
Then I build the file list using find and some patterns to insert %attribs
if needed, then followed by %files -f filelist. The new system now forces
me to put this list elsewhere... no real biggy, just a surprise when I
then latest version...
Also, people who do the canonical thing, i.e. unpack the source, configure
with a prefix in the build root, build and install will now have to clean
out the build tree at the end of the %install section, making it much
harder to debug things.
--
cg
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