rpmbuild Installed (but unpackaged) files source

Question

I'm trying to build an RPM from binaries on a REDHAT 6 system. I have all the files included in the %files section (find /path/to/fake/install -type f >> specfile)

When I run rpmbuild -bb specfile --target x86_64 I get

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /path/to/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/Package-1.0.0-1.el6.x86_64
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:

RPM build errors:
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:

Note that no files are listed in the error message. I'm not sure what's wrong, any ideas?

Althing

Answer 1

You can ignore these kind of errors by using

%define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0

See also

Meaty

To people coming here from google: The above answer is dangerous and should be used very carefully. Before resorting to this very carefully look at your %build and %install sections and make sure you've accounted to every file they generate in the %files section – Lichtenfeld

@SonofaSailor if your properly testing your RPM it shouldn't be an issue, but I agree this should only be used for initial development of the rpm as there is also the %ghost directive which would serve better to ignore (not include) installed files that you don't want in the package. – Appointive

Answer 2

I would guess your /path/to/fake/install is not correct.

The path in the %files section must be the path where the files will eventually be installed, e.g. /usr/local/bin/myprog. During the rpm build, in the %build section you need to make sure you put the files to the very same place you specify in the %files section, or you use the buildroot option of rpmbuild and use $RPM_BUILD_ROOT variable in your spec file with a sub-path matching the %files list, in this example $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/bin/myprog. See http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-anywhere.html for details.

Macmacabre

Please note that I'm generating the RPM from existing binaries (no %build). My %files look something like: /usr/share/foo /opt/foo/bar And my dir structure is: /path/to/rpmbuild/usr/share/foo /path/to/rpmbuild/opt/foo/bar – Althing

Doy you set the buildroot option to /pat/to/rpmbuild when running rpmbuild? – Macmacabre

@Macmacabre rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ch-rpm-anywhere.html link is dead (and it's not on web.archive.org). – Molech

Answer 3

One example where this may happen: Supposing in the %post section there is a %install_info and in the %postun section there is an associated %install_info_delete. This requires in the %install section an explicit removal of the intermediate directory of the info-files with a command like rm -f %{buildroot}/%{_infodir}/dir.

Merrillmerrily