Re: "error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:" what exactly does this mean?

[Andre Costa <brblueser uol com br>]

Hi Malcom,

thks for your answer, and sorry for not responding earlier.

I would love this was indeed a warning, but it seems to cause early
termination of RPM builds. AFAICS "good" spec files would not lead to
such warnings, but it has been happening a lot to me since I upgraded RPM
to 4.1 -- probably because SRPMs were careless about it until now. Is
there any way I can disable it (even if on a per case basis)? It's
keeping me from building a lot of RPMs...

TIA

Andre

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:05:24 +1000
Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:59:18PM -0200, Andre Costa wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > RPM 4.1 every once in a while spits this:
> > 
> > error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> > 
> > followed by a list of files. What does this mean? Is this a .spec
> > file probl? Are any sources missing?
> 
> It's a new feature in 4.1 that is meant to sanity check your
> packaging. If the %install section of the spec file installed some
> files that the%files section does not package, you get the warning.
> 
> The idea (I believe) is that you are meant to flail about in the
> %install phase to remove any installed files that you do not wish to
> package.
> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
> 
> 
> 
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Andre Oliveira da Costa