[desktop-discuss] spec files question regarding directory entries in %files

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 10:41 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> Question about the %files section of spec files. I find
> specifying directories with and w/out %dir, and/or with and
> w/out wildcards confusing, as described below. Could someone
> clarify and maybe comment on best practices in this regard?
> (The RPM spec file tuturorial I'm using isn't very helpful in
> this regard.)

It's described in max-rpm here:
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html#S3-RPM-INSIDE-DIR-DIRECTIVE

> Eric
> 
> 1. Does the following line mean to include only the
>     directory %{_datadir}/aclocal and nothing else
>     (i.e. its contents will be specified elsewhere)?
> 
>     %dir %{_datadir}/aclocal

Yes.  Basically, the default is to process directories recursively and
%dir makes it non-recursive.

Also, any parent directories are also added, using the last %defattr in
the %files section, unless you expicitely list them elsewhere in %files.
I.e. if you have

%files
%defattr (-, root, bin)
%{_libdir}/myapp/foo/bar
%defattr (-, root, sys)
%{_datadir}/myapp

Then %{_libdir}, %{_libdir}/myapp and %{_libdir}/myapp/foo
will be added with root:sys owners.

However, if you have this:

%files
%defattr (-, root, bin)
%{_libdir}/myapp/foo/bar
%defattr (-, root, sys)
%{_datadir}/myapp
%attr (0755, root, bin) %{_libdir}

then %_libdir will be root:bin, %{_libdir}/myapp and 
%{_libdir}/myapp/foo will still be root:sys.

This is kinda obscure, so it's better to use just one %defattr and
specify the attributes of well know directories like %{_libdir}
and %{_datadir} explicitely.

>     (I copied this from nvu.spec)
> 
> 2. Do the following lines all mean to include the
>     directory %{_datadir}/aclocal and all its contents?
> 
>     %{_datadir}/aclocal
>     %{_datadir}/aclocal/
>     %{_datadir}/aclocal/*

Yes, almost.  

The first 2 are exactly the same.
The third one is a tiny bit different, because of what I described 
above.  I.e. %{_datadir}/aclocal itself will have the permissions
specified in the last %defattr.

Note: Due to an open bug in pkgbuild, the %files entries are not
normalised so you may get an error for extra /'s.

Laca

>     (I copied these from cherokee.spec, SDL.spec,
>     and glibmm.spec respectively)
> 
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