[CMake] CPACK RPM directories in %files section

[Steven Green]

On 29/11/2011 22:12, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2011/11/29 Steven Green<steven at greenius.ltd.uk>:
>> When I try to install it on CentOS using rpm or yum I get an error message
>> about /etc/init.d conflicting with another package.
Thanks for the reply.  In the process of answering your questions, I 
found the actual problem.

I had a file with destination: /etc/init.d/myfile

When rpm tried to create /etc/init.d it complained it was owned by 
package chkconfig-1.3.30.2-2.e15.x86

Looking more closely I noted that on CentOS (5.5, 5.6 and 6.0) 
/etc/init.d is actually a link to /etc/rc.d/init.d rather than a real 
directory. In other Linux distributions I have used such as Debian, 
Ubuntu, Gentoo, /etc/init.d is a real folder.

I simply changed the destination to /etc/rc.d/init.d/myfile and now the 
rpm installs as expected.

However, I am not convinced that adding the intermediary directories 
into the RPM is correct behaviour.  If you run 'rpm -ql' on standard 
CentOS packages, they do not include them.

Bug 12305 seems concerned that the intermediary folders would not get 
deleted when an rpm is uninstalled, but you would not want system 
folders such as /etc deleted. And non-system folders which you create 
yourself can be set up so they get deleted using something like:
   install(DIRECTORY DESTINATION /opt/myfolder)

- Steven