Unpackaged files in RPM

Jaroslaw Gorny jgorny at aurox.org
Mon Sep 27 10:48:19 UTC 2004


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:30:30 -0700
Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:57, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> 
> > BTW. how is it possible to buid an RPM package with unpackaged
> > files? Always when I've got a wrong spec, rpmbuild finishes with
> > sth. like"unpackaged files found..." and *.rpm is not created.
> 
> That's a feature, not a bug! ;)

Yes, I know ;)
But I just wanted to know how to do it...

> 
> http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/unpackaged/

Thanks,

> But really, if there are no packaging bugs this just shouldn't be the
> case, so in the general case doing this is a really Bad Idea. (See
> Mike Harris's explanation in the link above.)

Yes, it's obvious.


Thanks again,

Jarek





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