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

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Christian Goetze wrote:

> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, I have a dim memory of fixing a bug with this behavior
> > in the last 2 months.

The memory was dim because it was a non-linux problem that I fixed:
	- fix: default _D_EXACT_NAMLEN(d) to strlen((d)->d_name) on non-linux.

> > Could you report at bugzilla.redhat.com against rpm, and
> > include a ptr to your src.rpm?
>
> I don't have a src rpm, I always use what comes with the distro, as  
> is, since that is what customers will use. It does me no good to  
> patch rpm for myself, since I have no control over what version of  
> RPM customers use, and many customers are just too dumb to patch  
> the stuff themselves.

OK.

> I guess I have to write  a workaround where %pre runs mkdir -p on  
> all directories I will need.

Um, you shouldn't need to solve the problem in %pre, but I can't  
really tell what you
are trying to do.

73 de Jeff