The change in the new specfile for update pine-4.44-1.72.0.src.rpm has introduced a couple of portability problems. From: Chris Adams <cmadams This is the primary problem I've had. For example, the RHL 7.2 pine RPM had: for n in pine pico pilot; do install -c -m 755 -s bin/$n $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/$n done For the errata, someone decided it was "better" to do: install -m 755 bin/{pine,pico,pilot,rpdump,rpload} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/ Why? There is no good reason not to use the more portable loop. And they didn't fix the real problem: the use of /usr/bin instead of %{_prefix}/bin or even better %{_bindir}. :-) ---------------------- This thread from the rpm-list on Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:03:27 -0600
*** Bug 58493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes, I made that change. It builds fine on all releases of Red Hat Linux that I have built it on. I'm not sure I understand the problem exactly. Not portable to what exactly? /usr/bin is not "better". I'm not sure the goals of Red Hat Linux coincide with whatever it is that whoever is trying to accomplish. %{_bindir} is the proper location for the binaries to be placed in, and it is exactly where they are. I have no idea where the %{_prefix} comes from as that string is found nowhere in the pine spec file. %files %defattr(-,root,root) %doc README CPYRIGHT doc/*.txt doc/pine-ports doc/tech-notes %doc doc/mailcap.unx imap/docs/bugs.txt %{_bindir}/pine %{_bindir}/pine-spellcheck %{_bindir}/pico %{_bindir}/pilot %{_bindir}/rpdump %{_bindir}/rpload %{_mandir}/man1/pico.1* %{_mandir}/man1/pine.1* %{_mandir}/man1/pilot.1* %{_mandir}/man1/rpdump.1* %{_mandir}/man1/rpload.1* %attr(0644,root,root) %config /etc/pine.conf %attr(0644,root,root) %config /etc/pine.conf.fixed %if %{with_gpgpine} %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/pinepgpgpg-install %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/pinegpg-install %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/pinegpg %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/gpg-sign %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/gpg-sign+encrypt %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/gpg-encrypt %attr(0755, root, root) %{_bindir}/gpg-check %endif