Re: RPM spec file: using __cp with wildcards

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:29:13AM -0400, Hosey, Chester wrote:

> Running rpmbuild fails because it's escaping arguments passed to 'cp' --
> instead of:
> 	cp sourcedir/*.ext /var/tmp/dest
> It insists on attempting
> 	cp 'sourcedir/*.ext' /var/tmp/dest
> 
> Obviously cp isn't happy about this.

"cp" does not know about it, the shell won't expand wildcards when
quoted, so "cp" will see the unexpanded arguments.

> Is there an easy way to get rpmbuild to allow the use of wildcards in
> commands in the %install section without escaping everything it's asked
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to pass on to the command line? Is the spec file incorrect? Do I need to
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> rewrite it to explicitly mention every file to be copied?

I do not really understand what the marked text is trying to say, but if

 	cp 'sourcedir/*.ext' /var/tmp/dest

is really in the spec file, the spec file is definitely wrong.

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