Re: Files listed twice question

--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Adri=E1n M=E1rques <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Adri=E1n M=E1rques <[email protected]>
> Subject: Files listed twice question
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 9:28 PM
> Hi there,
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> I'm an absolute newbie trying to package an application
> with RPM for the=20
> first time and would like to mark some files as config
> files.
> The top directory of this aplication has several files and
> directories,=20
> only two of which hold config files. Thus, I'm doing
> something like this=20
> in my spec file:
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> %files
> /usr/local/myAppTopDir/
> %config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir1/*
> %config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir2/*
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> Obviously, this generates several 'file listed
> twice' warnings. However,=20
> I queried the generated rpm and didn't find anything
> wrong with it. All=20
> config files where included and correctly marked as config
> files.
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> So my questions are: can I safely ignore these warnings or
> listing files=20
> twice like I have causes a problem I'm not seeing now?
> is there a better=20
> way to do what I want?
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> I have been looking through the list archives so I know
> many of you=20
> would advice me to explicitly list all files. I know this
> would take=20
> care of this particular problem, but I don't want to do
> that unless I=20
> really have to, since I find globbing significantly more
> practical in=20
> this case.
It's strange that it's only warning at least before it was error.

I personally prefer am list file explicit. It'sallows cross-check between=
 installation files into build-root and filelist.
If you haven't too much files I suggest explicitly list them. If you have=
 too much you can use find to generate filelist on the fly.

Valery
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> I thank you already for taking the time to read this.
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> Regards.
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> Adri=E1n.
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