[rpm-list] Re: escaping '%' in a file name.

[Jason Pyeron]

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From: rpm-list-bounces at lists.rpm.org [mailto:rpm-list-bounces at lists.rpm.org] On
Behalf Of Jordan Sissel
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 21:30
To: General discussion about the RPM package manager
Subject: [rpm-list] Re: escaping '%' in a file name.




On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jordan Sissel <jls at semicomplete.com> wrote:


Howdy folks! 

I'm mostly noting this here for posterity.

I'm trying to package software that has files with '%' in the names. I tried a
few things, but nothing worked. Googling found only this thread from 2003 which
indicated that "%%" "should" work but it does not (thread;
://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rpm-list/message/21824
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rpm-list/message/21824> )


If my %files section is follows, for testing all possible permutations ;)

%files
/example/%name
/example/%%name
/example/%%%name
/example/%%%%name
/example/%{%}name
/example/\%name

The error with rpmbuild is:

RPM build errors:
    File not found:
/tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/helloworld
    File not found:
/tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/helloworld
    File not found:
/tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/%helloworld
    File not found:
/tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/helloworld
    File not found:
/tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/%{%}name
    File not found:
/tmp/package-rpm-build20120528-31204-qsgxuu/BUILD/example/\helloworld

Judging from the above, it appears the correct way to escape a single % in a
filename is to use '%%%'



-Jordan


Replying to my own nonsense.


I misread the output. None of my attempted escapes actually worked.


Any ideas?


 
 

 
This works for me:
 
Name: test
Version: 0.0
Release: 0
Summary: none
Group: any
License: none
%description
none
 
%install
 
mkdir -p /tmp/foo
> /tmp/foo/%.txt
 
%files
/tmp/foo/%.txt
 
 
 
 
 
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