Kaixo!

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:57:30AM -0400, Camille Begnis wrote:

> > >   find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix}/info -type f -exec bzip2 -9f {} \;
> > >   mkdir -p -m 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix}/info/list
> > >   find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix}/info -type f | sed -e 's,^\'"$RPM_BUILD_ROOT,," \
> > >        > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix}/info/list/%{name}.list
> > > fi
> > 
> > yeah, seems nice (the list part)
> 
> Do not agree, it's always the same problem for auto-generated file
> lists: what happens for shared dirs if $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is set to / ?
> Moreover, it forces the spec writer to search for files and therefore
> detect possible errors or probs.

I agree. a %files section automatically fileld is evil; it generates tons
of error messages on rpm package updates (of the kind of 
"/usr/bin directory not empty"), which give a bad image of our work.


> Camille.

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