Re: Since when is listing all the directories in an install mandatory?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Christian Goetze wrote:

> Recently, I've been observing RPM installs to fail because it tries  
> to copy I file into a non-existing directory. I also observed that  
> rpmbuild will now warn me with "directories not explicitly listed".
>
> My understanding was that a directory listed with %dir was for  
> exclusive use by that rpm. I'm probably wrong there, but I'm still  
> annoyed that I now have to go through all the spec files and add  
> the %dir entries in the %files list.

What version of rpm?

What distro/platform?

73 de Jeff