"file listed twice" warning

[Daniel Novotny]

hello,

I am now fixing stuff in a package for a merge review and this include getting rid of "file listed twice" warnings

the situation is this:

%files
%{mmdir}/Mailman
# ...
%attr(0644, root, %{mmgroup}) %config(noreplace) %verify(not md5 size mtime) %{mmdir}/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

so there's a directory, with lots of sub-directories and files, I want all of them included,
but one file of those needs special permissions, directives and such:

after that, rpmbuild tells me it's listed twice: once in the directory and once in the "%config", "%attr" definition

is there a way around this? probably a directive "I know the file is already listed, just want to change the flags"

-Daniel Novotny

[Tom Callaway]

On 05/26/2009 09:13 AM, Daniel Novotny wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am now fixing stuff in a package for a merge review and this include getting rid of "file listed twice" warnings
>
> the situation is this:
>
> %files
> %{mmdir}/Mailman
> # ...
> %attr(0644, root, %{mmgroup}) %config(noreplace) %verify(not md5 size mtime) %{mmdir}/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
>
> so there's a directory, with lots of sub-directories and files, I want all of them included,
> but one file of those needs special permissions, directives and such:
>
> after that, rpmbuild tells me it's listed twice: once in the directory and once in the "%config", "%attr" definition
>
> is there a way around this? probably a directive "I know the file is already listed, just want to change the flags"

There is no simple directive here like you're suggesting. The correct
fix is to do something like this:

%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%dir %{mmdir}/Mailman/
%{mmdir}/Mailman/subdirectory1/
%{mmdir}/Mailman/subdirectory2/
%{mmdir}/Mailman/subdirectory3/
# Use wildcards where appropriate, but be sure not to catch the special
case.
%{mmdir}/Mailman/file1.py*
%{mmdir}/Mailman/file2.py*
# Special case... shortened to fit on one line, for the purpose of
illustration
%attr(0644, root, %{mmgroup}) %{mmdir}/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

~spot