[Scons-users] tagging files (RPM packaging)

[Werner Reisberger]

The RPM packages I am trying to build with SCons require certain tags 
but most of the tags does not work out of the box.

E.g. The SCons man page proposes the following call to tag a file with 
the DOC attribute:

     # marks file2.txt to be a documentation file
     Tag('file2.txt', DOC)

This does not work. I have to say

     Tag('file2.txt', DOC=' ')

That's because the tag is defined as

     'PACKAGING_DOC'              : '%%doc %s',

but DOC attributes in RPM spec files have the format

      %doc file_name

It's different with the UNIX_ATTR tag where file mode and owner/group 
have to be appended like

      %attr(644, root, adm) /etc/yp.conf

The tag command for UNIX_ATTR in the SCons man page also doesn't work:

      # makes sure the built library will be installed with 644 file 
access mode
      Tag(Library('lib.c'), UNIX_ATTR="0o644")

You need to follow the RPM specification 
(http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-anywhere-specifying-file-attributes.html)

However the tagging test script on GitHub does it right.

Like the DOC attribute the following tag definitions need to be fixed:

         'PACKAGING_CONFIG'           : '%%config %s',            # => 
'%%config'
         'PACKAGING_CONFIG_NOREPLACE' : '%%config(noreplace) %s', # => 
'%%config(noreplace)'
         'PACKAGING_UNIX_ATTR'        : '%%attr %s',              # => 
'%%attr(%s)'
         'PACKAGING_LANG_'            : '%%lang(%s) %s',          # => 
'%%lang(%s)'
         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_VERIFY'     : '%%verify %s',            # => 
'%%verify (%s)' ?
         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_DIR'        : '%%dir %s',               # => 
'%%dir'
         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_DOCDIR'     : '%%docdir %s',            # => 
'%%docdir'
         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_GHOST'      : '%%ghost %s', }           # => 
'%%ghost'

Unfortunately my python knowledge is rather basic but let me know how I 
can help.

Happy 2022 and keep on going with your great work!

--Werner