It however conflicts with: http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html "-f <file> — Read the %files List From <file> The -f option is used to direct RPM to read the %files list from the named file. Like the %files list in a spec file, the file named using the -f option should contain one filename per line and also include any of the directives named in this section."