Re: question re: best practices,

[Rob Nagler <nagler bivio biz>]

Jim Knoble writes:
> The paragraph you quote was written somewhat before the advent of
> 'BuildRoot', back when primates first descended from the trees and
> specfiles installed files directly into the regular filesystem.

I'm not an "insider", I just use google.  I haven't found anything
that describes how to generate %files except as "a manual process is
creating the file list" as described in Maximum RPM.  Here are more
links to different descriptions of the same process:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm/building.html
http://pcnu34.jinr.ru/book/max-RPM/sec2.html#SECTION021434000000000000000

Is there an RPM documentation project?  I'd be happy to contribute a
paragraph or two which would expand on "get %build to install in
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT, and use find to generate %files, %doc, and %config".

Rob