On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Christian Goetze wrote:
> 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.
>
Any file is not OK, but what you may be able to do is add said missing
files to %files list as an %exclude, like:
%exclude /some/file/in/build/you/don't/want
and then, from what I have seen in the source they get ignored. I have
not tested this though, so YMMV. Alternatively, you can delete said
files in your %install section, so that when it goes to package up the
files, the unwanted files will not be there. Look on www.rpm.org, and
I think there is a section on this problem that lists other alternatives.
Cheers...james
> 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.
This has been going on for a while, and it actually helps more than harms.
Basically, what it prevents is packaging something up that you thought was
the complete set of needed files, but was indeed not the complete set.
Also, when dealing with open source programs, its mighty handy when going
to a new version of the software, because, it tells you about all the new
files that now appear in your build root that you probably want.
Cheers...james
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