In regard to: Re: Files listed twice question, Greg_Swift@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
I'm an absolute newbie trying to package an application with RPM for the
first time and would like to mark some files as config files.
The top directory of this aplication has several files and directories,
only two of which hold config files. Thus, I'm doing something like this
in my spec file:
%files
/usr/local/myAppTopDir/
%config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir1/*
%config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir2/*
Obviously, this generates several 'file listed twice' warnings. However,
I queried the generated rpm and didn't find anything wrong with it. All
config files where included and correctly marked as config files.
So my questions are: can I safely ignore these warnings or listing files
twice like I have causes a problem I'm not seeing now? is there a better
way to do what I want?
You could ignore them, but it is not recommended. The problem is that you
are effectively listing them twice the way you have it above. Your first
entry "/usr/local/myAppTopDir/" tells it to add that directory and
everything under it. Your next two entries and inside that first entry's
list.
My recommendation would be to just use a couple more globs:
%files
%dir /usr/local/myAppTopDir
# this should catch most non-hidden files and dirs, except those that
# start with c or other non-alpha characters.
/usr/local/myAppTopDir/[A-Za-bd-z0-9]*
#
# If you have any other files or directories that start with c, beyond
# configDir1 and configDir2, you'll need to list them or use a glob
# that catches them but not configDir? , something like
#
# /usr/local/myAppTopDir/c[A-Za-np-z0-9]*
#
%dir /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir1
%config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir1/*
%dir /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir2
%config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir2/*
I also personally avoid the use of auto-generated files lists.
Tim
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