Re: rpm5 incompatibility with old rpm: globs no longer include dangling symlinks + proposed popt alias patch

2008-06-25 Thread devzero2000
# ... the patch on the end of this mail What is more, the resulting "broken" package isn't installable by default because a failed linktos deps. e.g. (with another example package ) #rpm -Uvh /home/machbuild/rpmbuild/RPMS/simplest-1.0-1.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: /et

Re: rpm5 incompatibility with old rpm: globs no longer include dangling symlinks

2008-06-25 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Bernhard Rosenkränzer wrote: In older rpm versions, this spec fragment would cause %_bindir/ someapp to be included: %install make install # consolehelper comes from a different package, therefore the symlink # being created here is dangling ln -s consolehelper $R

rpm5 incompatibility with old rpm: globs no longer include dangling symlinks

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Rosenkränzer
In older rpm versions, this spec fragment would cause %_bindir/someapp to be included: %install make install # consolehelper comes from a different package, therefore the symlink # being created here is dangling ln -s consolehelper $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%_bindir/someapp %files %_bindir/* In 5.1.4 (an