[patch] udev spec file symlink support

[patch] udev spec file symlink support

[Robert Love]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 18:43, Greg KH wrote:

> Thanks, I've applied this.

Thanks, Greg.

> Hm, I would also like to add the /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug
> symlink, but rpm doesn't seem to like symlinks in the %files section.
> Anyone know how to do this properly?

The problem is that the symlink is left dangling to an absolute location
in the build root, which won't exist on the installer's system.  RPM 4.0
and on catches this.

Attached patch fixes it up and makes it work.

Patch is relative to udev-003 + last patch.

	Robert Love


 udev.spec |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff -urN udev-cvs/udev.spec udev/udev.spec
--- udev-cvs/udev.spec	2003-10-17 19:00:51.571773864 -0400
+++ udev/udev.spec	2003-10-17 19:00:38.302791056 -0400
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 
 %install
 make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
+rm -f ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug
+ln -s /sbin/udev ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@
 %attr(755,root,root) /etc/udev/
 %attr(0644,root,root) /etc/udev/namedev.config
 %attr(0644,root,root) /etc/udev/namedev.permissions
+%attr(-,root,root) /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug
 %attr(0644,root,root) %{_mandir}/man8/udev.8*
 
 %changelog
@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@
 - Correctly install the right files
 - Pass the RPM_OPT_FLAGS to gcc so we can build per the build policy
 - Put some prereqs in
+- Install the hotplug symlink to udev
 
 * Mon Jul 28 2003 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
 - Initial spec file for udev-0.2.




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Re: [patch] udev spec file symlink support

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 07:04:23PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 18:43, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, I've applied this.
> 
> Thanks, Greg.
> 
> > Hm, I would also like to add the /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug
> > symlink, but rpm doesn't seem to like symlinks in the %files section.
> > Anyone know how to do this properly?
> 
> The problem is that the symlink is left dangling to an absolute location
> in the build root, which won't exist on the installer's system.  RPM 4.0
> and on catches this.
> 
> Attached patch fixes it up and makes it work.

Ah, much nicer.  Thanks for the patch, I've applied it.

greg k-h


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