Re: Re: basic question - space in file name

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

On 10/30/06, Paul Flores <flores_p_a yahoo com> wrote:
> Double quoting doesn't work or at least I can't get it too work!
>
> In documentation the implication is that the expectation is that filenames
> in a SPEC file can be space delimited allowing for more than one file to be
> included on one line.  It appears that the rpmbuild command is explicitly
> looking for spaces which defeats both double quoting and escaping spaces.

WORKSFORME.

I just checked a spec file with

  %install
   ...
   touch %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/file\ with\ spaces
   ...

  %files
   ...
   "%{_bindir}/file with spaces"

and produced this package

   $ rpm -qpl foo*.i386.rpm
   ...
   /usr/bin/file with spaces

73 de Jeff