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

[Christian Goetze <cg sensage com>]

Jeff Johnson wrote:

> 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?

4.3.3

> What distro/platform?

rhel43

Thanks - and apologies...
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cg