Need help for open Requests

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Wed Aug 3 16:06:43 UTC 2005


Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote :

> One point of note:
> 
> If your application creates a directory structure like this:
> 
> /usr/share/foo-1.1/bar/baz/qux
> 
> And you want to own all of the files and directories in that structure,
> all you need to do in %files is:
> 
> %{_datadir}/foo-1.1
> 
> This will cause all of the files and directories within that package to
> be owned by that package.

Just a small cosmetic preference : It increases readability and decreases
possible confusion to add a trailing slash to the lines in %files that
reference directories.

So in this case, I'd recommend :

%{_datadir}/foo-1.1/

Which is simply more "explicit" (e.g. for reviewers), although producing
the exact same result in the package.

Matthias

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