Re: [rh-rpm] Re: question re: best practices,

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Rob Nagler wrote:

> Jeff Johnson writes:
> > Point me at any RPM doco that sez' not to use find to generate %files, and I
> > will eradicate immediately.
> 
> http://www.rpm.org/support/RPM-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.8 sez:
> 
>     This is the section where you must list the files for the binary
>     package. RPM has no way to know what binaries get installed as a
>     result of make install. There is NO way to do this. Some have ...

It is not in the scope of RPM, per se.  Jeff will probably not
eradicate it, as it is not in the present RPM package -- The
website has been amended.

Thanks, Rob.

-- Russ Herrold