Re: Trying to build an RPM

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On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:48 pm, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Juan Jose Natera wrote:
> >1) I can't list in %files, those with blank spaces in the names, even
> >scaping them fails to do the trick. I had to remove them from the file
> >list for rpmbuild to work.
>
> Try wildcards to include these files.  Or instead of listing them
> individually, just do the whole directory.  Example:
>
> %files
> /usr/bin/*
> /usr/sbin/*
>
> >2) I haven't tried to install the package yet, but after generating
> >the RPM, it lists a very long list of "Provides", such as
> >perl(Module::Name1), perl(Module::Name2), perl(Module::NameN), that
> >doesn't worry me, the problem is that almost everything that is listed
> >in Provides is also listed "Requires".
>
> That's kind of odd.  I haven't made any perl module packages before, so
> I'm unsure how the auto-dependency checking for them work.
>
> Bryan
Perl module packages are a PITA. Lots of dependencies aren't autodetected and 
some provisions aren't autodetected either, so you have to explicitly tell 
what a package supplies.

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