SPEC file questions

[Mogaba]

Hi,

I'm new to RPM package building and I have a couple of questions regarding SPEC file:

1. If I use the %defattr directive without specifying file attributes, like this:

   %defattr(-,root,root,755)

   does it mean file attributes will be the same as in %buildroot folder or attributes will be set at the installation time in accordance with umask?

2. If I use a wildcard in the %files section like this:

   /usr/bin/*

   does it mean I just added all files in %buildroot/usr/bin/ to the RPM package or I made RPM think that all files in /usr/bin/ belong to the package on the target system?

[pmatilai]

Oh, this has gone somehow entirely unnoticed, sorry about that.

1. %defattr(-,root,root,755) means that for regular files, the permission bits are collected from %buildroot, but directories will be set as 755.
2. The %files section always refers to the buildroot contents in modern rpm