Bug 3339

Summary: "/usr/bin/install" problems
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: gerald
Component: fileutilsAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description gerald 1999-06-08 16:52:20 UTC 
The line

install -D name dir/newname

in a spec file is executed as

install -D name dir/name

That is, name is copied to dir as name and not as newname.

BTW, rpm -tb foo-1.0.tar.gz should first look for
foo.spec or foo-1.0.spec and not take the first spec file
it finds.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-08 18:48:59 UTC 
I do not understand what you are describing. Can you reply
to this message with your specfile? Thanks.

------- Email Received From  Gerald Teschl <gerald@mat.univie.ac.at> 06/08/99 15:31 -------
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-08 21:05:59 UTC 
There are two problems here. The 1st problem is that
	install -D SOURCE /A/B/C/DEST
should create /A/B/C/DEST but it actually creates /A/B/C/SOURCE.
This is a bug in fileutils (I'll change the component).

If you *really* want to include *.spec in a tarball and build
by doing "rpm -tb foo.tar.gz" then call the main spec file
Specfile. rpm looks for that file before it tries to untar
(possibly multiple) *.spec files. The problem there, of course,
is the name space collision that can occur if you have more
than one package with a main spec file called Specfile.

Off to fileutils

------- Email Received From  Gerald Teschl <gerald@mat.univie.ac.at> 06/09/99 03:33 -------
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-09 09:51:59 UTC 
If you think the command is working on the command line, try
	cd /tmp
	touch SOURCE
	install -D SOURCE /var/tmp/A/B/DEST
	ls -al /var/tmp/A/B/DEST
where I get
	ls: /var/tmp/A/B/DEST: No such file or directory

The man page for install sez'
       -D     create  all  leading  components of DEST except the
              last, then copy SOURCE to DEST;  useful in the  1st
              format
which AFAICT means that DEST (not SOURCE!) should be the name of the
created file.


------- Email Received From  Gerald Teschl <gerald@mat.univie.ac.at> 06/09/99 08:49 -------
Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-31 23:18:59 UTC 
Fixed in fileutils-4.0-4.