RE: [rpm-list] Re: escaping '%' in a file name.

["Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jordan Sissel
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 21:30
To: General discussion about the RPM package manager
Subject: [rpm-list] Re: escaping '%' in a file name.

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jordan Sissel <jls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Howdy folks!

I'm mostly noting this here for posterity.

I'm trying to package software that has files with '%' in the names. I tried a few things, but nothing worked. Googling found only this thread from 2003 which indicated that "%%" "should" work but it does not (thread; ://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rpm-list/message/21824)

If my %files section is follows, for testing all possible permutations ;)

%files

/example/%name

/example/%%name

/example/%%%name

/example/%%%%name

/example/%{%}name

/example/\%name

The error with rpmbuild is:

RPM build errors:

    File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/helloworld

    File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/helloworld

    File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/%helloworld

    File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/helloworld

    File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/%{%}name

    File not found: /tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/\helloworld

Judging from the above, it appears the correct way to escape a single % in a filename is to use '%%%'

-Jordan

Replying to my own nonsense.

I misread the output. None of my attempted escapes actually worked.

Any ideas?

 

 

 

This works for me:

 

Name: test
Version: 0.0
Release: 0
Summary: none
Group: any
License: none
%description
none

 

%install

 

mkdir -p /tmp/foo
> /tmp/foo/%.txt

 

%files
/tmp/foo/%.txt

 

 

 

 

 

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