Re: Anyone seen this error?

[Quentin Spencer <qspencer ieee org>]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:49:54 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I recently received a bug report that one of my packages (in devel) 
> > fails when built in mock with the following error:
> >
> > error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> >   /usr/share/info/dir
> >
> > I was able to duplicate this in a mock build, but here's what I don't 
> > understand: after the build failure, I don't see a "dir" file in 
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/info . Furthermore, if I try the same build on 
> > a (mostly) up to date devel system, the build completes without any 
> > problems. Why? In looking at other packages that I maintain, one that 
> > was formerly in core has the line
> >
> > rm -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_infodir}/dir
> >
> > in the %install section.
> >    
>
> When building as "root", the "dir" file is created. Else, not.
>  

Thanks, that explains a lot. This error has started appearing recently 
in two of my packages, which previously built fine in mock. Is this due 
to changes in mock? Is this a bug?

-Quentin