> > 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. So this is a "feature" I find irritating, but it's a matter of the different constituencies rpm tries to serve. You can disable the fatal-error-on-unpackaged-files behavior by adding this to your .rpmmacros: %_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0 When you're packaging for an operating system from a collection of base packages, you want to know what's changing as those base packages evolve, and so this feature makes a nice flag if there's some stuff you're not including in %files that the package is now creating. It's also an interesting flag if builds on different machines produce different results. In /my/ situation I build a number of test packages that are subsets of what is built from a source tarball, and I actually want %files to be my way to pick-and-choose which bits I want to go into my package, I think it's a horrid kludge to make, install, and then at the tail end of install, go remove a bunch of stuff that just got installed. I'll have to go experiment with %exclude, I've heard it mentioned but not seen it documented. But as I said, rpm serves different constituencies and the default behavior is never going to be ideal for everyone.... _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
