Hi all, I came across a very neat approach used by the debian people when building packages, and given the difficulties that can arise when writing "%files" sections in RPMs, I thought I would ask the list: is 'fakeroot' available with the RPM system, and would it be of use in building RPMs? Perhaps fakeroot's trickery can't be supported on Fedora/Redhat systems for some reason. I'd like to know if/why. http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org/ I quote from the RPM HOW-TO from www.rpm.org: > > 6.8. Files > > This is the section where you /must/ list the files for the binary > package. RPM has no way to know what binaries get installed as a > result of *make install*. There is /NO/ way to do this. Some have > suggested doing a *find* before and after the package install. With a > multiuser system, this is unacceptable as other files may be created > during a package building process that have nothing to do with the > package itself. > Cheers JP _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
