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--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Adrián Márques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Adrián Márques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Files listed twice question
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 9:28 PM
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm an absolute newbie trying to package an application
> with RPM for the 
> first time and would like to mark some files as config
> files.
> The top directory of this aplication has several files and
> directories, 
> only two of which hold config files. Thus, I'm doing
> something like this 
> in my spec file:
> 
> %files
> /usr/local/myAppTopDir/
> %config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir1/*
> %config /usr/local/myAppTopDir/configDir2/*
> 
> Obviously, this generates several 'file listed
> twice' warnings. However, 
> I queried the generated rpm and didn't find anything
> wrong with it. All 
> config files where included and correctly marked as config
> files.
> 
> So my questions are: can I safely ignore these warnings or
> listing files 
> twice like I have causes a problem I'm not seeing now?
> is there a better 
> way to do what I want?
> 
> I have been looking through the list archives so I know
> many of you 
> would advice me to explicitly list all files. I know this
> would take 
> care of this particular problem, but I don't want to do
> that unless I 
> really have to, since I find globbing significantly more
> practical in 
> this case.
It's strange that it's only warning at least before it was error.

I personally prefer am list file explicit. It'sallows cross-check between 
installation files into build-root and filelist.
If you haven't too much files I suggest explicitly list them. If you have too 
much you can use find to generate filelist on the fly.

Valery
> 
> I thank you already for taking the time to read this.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Adrián.
> 
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