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

["Jeff Johnson" <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On 8/24/06, Christian Goetze <cg sensage com> wrote:
> 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

Hmmm, I have a dim memory of fixing a bug with this behavior
in the last 2 months.

Could you report at bugzilla.redhat.com against rpm, and
include a ptr to your src.rpm?

I'll dig out the fix this evening when I have a brain.

73 de Jeff