[Fedora-mentors-list] error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 07:09 -0500, David Eisenstein wrote:
> In my experience with the "black art" of RPM packaging, the best way I
> have found to learn about it is to read RPM .spec files and to play with
> rpmbuild on already-existing packages made by Red Hat or others.
> 
[...snip...]
> 
> You may also wish to look around on http://www.rpm.org/ -- they have an
> RPM FAQ as well as the "Maximum RPM" text which may help explain some
> more.  I believe <http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html#FILES> talks
> more about your specific question.

Might I also recommend the following?  These were presented by Tom
"spot" Callaway at the Red Hat Summit a few weeks ago and extremely well
received by the attendees:

http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPMBestPractices-Summit2006.sxi
http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPMBestPractices-Summit2006.pdf
http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPM-spec-examples.txt

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