Anyone seen this error?

[Quentin Spencer]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:49:54 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>I recently received a bug report that one of my packages (in devel) 
>>fails when built in mock with the following error:
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>>error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>>   /usr/share/info/dir
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>>I was able to duplicate this in a mock build, but here's what I don't 
>>understand: after the build failure, I don't see a "dir" file in 
>>$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/info . Furthermore, if I try the same build on 
>>a (mostly) up to date devel system, the build completes without any 
>>problems. Why? In looking at other packages that I maintain, one that 
>>was formerly in core has the line
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>>rm -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_infodir}/dir
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>>in the %install section.
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>When building as "root", the "dir" file is created. Else, not.
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Thanks, that explains a lot. This error has started appearing recently 
in two of my packages, which previously built fine in mock. Is this due 
to changes in mock? Is this a bug?

-Quentin