-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 29 August 2006 7:01 PM, Nicolas Baradakis wrote:
Thanks for the explanation: I never used rpmbuild myself, so I
didn't
know the detailed mechanisms. Then it appears deletion is not really a problem. The only thing that is strange, is that you redo with rpmbuild what the Makefile has already done.
The RPM build process does use the Makefile. It does a complete build and install, but does the install in the environment of the "build root", which has a usr, etc, bin, and so on. The built directory is then used to construct the packaged binary RPM (and source RPM, if requested). However, it needs to distinguish between different types of files. This is why files are tagged as "%doc", because these need to be located in what is designated as the documentation directory. So, regardless of the original directory that the Makefile installed them in, they get moved into the documentation directory, sort of relative to the way they are specified in the %doc directives. If you're interested, see "The %doc Directive" at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-files-list- directives.html. Regards SW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.5 wkYEARECAAYFAkT1SdEACgkQmw4BJyaatJ0eVgCgoM2ZJElpezgs821HUu6lfa1YUFgA oKWP1VLiIBUuZ3CXU3aiCZwQK74S =i+p9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----