RE: Love/hate relationship with RPMs

[bob cs csoft net]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

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> > From: bob@cs.csoft.net [mailto:bob@cs.csoft.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 3:28 PM
> > To: Gregory Leblanc
> > Cc: Gnome List (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: Love/hate relationship with RPMs
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> > I dont know if this will work, but try changin it to
> > %{prefix}/share/locale/*
> > 
> > If it doesn't, give me a directory listing of
> > /var/tmp/bug-buddy-root/user/share/locale
> 
> There in, I think lies the problem.  It doesn't create the locale
> directory at all!  I'm not out of space on that filesystem, or
> anything else, it just decides not to create it.  I went back and
> made that change to the .spec file, but it didn't change anything
> since it doesn't bother to create this directory.  What section of
> the process should be creating this file, so that I can look either
> at the .spec for that, or the actual process there, to find why it
> doesn't create this.  I don't see any other errors referring to that
> directory anywhere.  Thanks,

Check the make file to see if it is actually has $(prefix) in it where it
installes that file. also, check to see if it creates that directory. if
it doesnt, that is the problem.

> 	Greg
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