nVidia drivers and rawhide

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Wed May 25 06:59:28 UTC 2005


Demond James wrote:
> Trying ot get this to work for the x86_64 arch.  The get the following 
> error message when trying to rebuild.
> 
> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>   /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so
> 
> "/usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so" is a  symbolic link: libGLcore.so -> 
> libGLcore.so.1.0.7174
> Anyone know what's going wrong here.  Is my system settings or the spec 
> file?
> 

This sounds like an rpm packaging bug.  I'm guessing, but it
seems like the rpm package might create that symlink in rpm
install scriptlets, rather than at %install time.

The best way, is to do it in %install, simplify install
scriptlets, and update the file list to own the symlink.




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