On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Bernhard Rosenkränzer wrote:

> In older rpm versions, this spec fragment would cause %_bindir/ 
> someapp to be
> included:
>
> %install
> make install
> # consolehelper comes from a different package, therefore the symlink
> # being created here is dangling
> ln -s consolehelper $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%_bindir/someapp
>
> %files
> %_bindir/*
>
>
> In 5.1.4 (and probably older rpm5 versions), the dangling symlink  
> is omitted
> and listed in "warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found".
> Probably an lstat() somewhere was changed to stat()...
>
> Listing %_bindir/someapp explicitly still packages it.
>
> Is this an intentional change (because dangling symlinks can be rather
> unwanted), or a bug?
>

RPM uses internal glob to maintain compatibility, not for portability.

The incompatibility was introduced several years ago when glibc, not  
rpm, changed.

73 de Jeff