Here's a useful usenet article that shows how to build a filelist
instead of having to specify each one. 
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From: John Ross Hunt (bigboote@mediaone.net)
Subject: RE: Newbie to build spec files 
Newsgroups: linux.redhat.rpm
Date: 2000/07/27 


> So, is there a better way, in RPM 3, to populate %files?
> Because I know
> 'buildroot' and it has nothing to do with %files.

I found this bit of code in a .spec file to build a %files list on the fly
and have been using it ever since.  I've always thought RPM should be able
to provide a default %files list in the event one isn't present in the .spec
file.

--
John Ross Hunt
bigboote@mediaone.net <mailto:bigboote@mediaone.net>



%define pkg_name foo

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT

cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
find . -type d | sed '1,2d;s,^\.,\%attr(-\,root\,root) \%dir ,' > \
      $RPM_BUILD_DIR/file.list.%{pkg_name}

find . -type f | sed -e 's,^\.,\%attr(-\,root\,root) ,' \
      -e '/\/etc\//s|^|%config|' >> \
      $RPM_BUILD_DIR/file.list.%{pkg_name}

find . -type l | sed 's,^\.,\%attr(-\,root\,root) ,' >> \
      $RPM_BUILD_DIR/file.list.%{pkg_name}

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT $RPM_BUILD_DIR/file.list.%{pkg_name}

%files -f ../file.list.%{pkg_name}
%doc README TODO example
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