Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (156 mails)

[Denny Beyer <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:26:22 Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Denny,
>
> On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:18:19 am Denny Beyer wrote:
> > in the spec file I had several times the situation, where a stucture
> >
> >  of folders and subfolders containing files needed to be copied from
> >  the the original extracted package into the structure of the
> >  programs folder to be packaged, e.g. if you have additional support
> >  files other than code/binaries.
> >
> > at the moment, I have to create each folder idividually in the spec
> >
> >  file because install does not seem to support folders. A simple copy
> >  would also do, but then rights might not set correctly.
> >
> > I have this:
> > dir1
> >
> >   |- dir1.1 : file1, file2
> >   |
> >        |-dir1.2: file10,file20
> >
> > This doesn't work:
> > %__install -m 755 dir1 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/%{name}/
> >
> >
> > I'm sure this is an easy one for you guy's, but it keeps bugging me
> >
> >  :-)
>
> "install" indeed doesn't seem to handle recursive copies, so I fear you
> have to do it on your own, using cp -r for the copy, followed by
> chown -R and chmod -R on the destination tree.

If this is the way to go ... just wanted to make sure not missing out on 
something.

cheers,
Denny
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