[Mageia-dev] Help with package

[Charles A Edwards]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:23:40 +0000 (UTC)
David Walser wrote:

> > ln -sf %{_datadir}/%{name}/basewsw/*
> >  %{buildroot}%{gamelibdir}/basewsw  
> 
> That creates absolute symlinks rather than relative ones.
> You shouldn't do absolute ones.
> 
> > for i in %{_datadir}/%{name}/basewsw/*;
> > do
> >   file=`basename $i`
> > 
> >   ln -sf $i  %{buildroot}%{gamelibdir}/basewsw/$file
> > done  
> 
> Looks better, that should make relative links.
> 
> The problem is in the first line, the %{_datadir}/%{name}/basewsw/*
> should have a %{buildroot} at the beginning of it.  Otherwise, it's
> matching against files on your actual system already installed at
> that location, which of course won't be there on the build system.
> That's why the * doesn't match anything, and becomes a literal *.

Why not have it created in post by the warsow-data rpm?

%post
ln -sf %{_datadir}/warsow/basewsw/*  %{gamelibdir}/basewsw

%postun
rm -rf %{gamelibdir}/basewsw


    Charles

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