On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:11:57 -0500 "Jim Knoble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can. Versions of RPM later than v3.0.3 automagically compress man > pages and info pages as part of the packaging process. The secret has > two parts: (snip) > The problem you're encountering is that the %files listing is being > generated automatically, but *before* the brp-compress script is > called. Hence, the automatically-generated listing contains the > uncompressed man page filenames, but by the time RPM gets around to > actually making the package, the brp-compress script has compressed > them right out from under you. > > The best thing to do when generating automatic file lists is to call > brp-compress *before* generating the list,
Sweet explaination! I've run into this problem with a few SRC RPM files and now I finally know why! The things you learn on the Blackbox list never fail to amaze me. Jamin W. Collins
