[Mageia-dev] Help with package

Fri Jan 4 00:10:33 CET 2013

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
+
+
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+
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