When building libvirt rpms on rhel5, I got the following error: File must begin with "/": rm File must begin with "/": -f File must begin with "/": $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/sysctl.d/libvirtd Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /etc/sysctl.d/libvirtd It is triggerd by the %files list of libvirt daemon: %if 0%{?fedora} >= 14 || 0%{?rhel} >= 6 %config(noreplace) %{_prefix}/lib/sysctl.d/libvirtd.conf %else rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/sysctl.d/libvirtd.conf %endif After checking document of rpm spec file, I think it would be better to move the file deleting line from %files list to %install script. --- libvirt.spec.in | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 52da4f4..4872c07 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -1420,6 +1420,10 @@ mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/systemtap/tapset/libvirt_qemu_probes.stp \ %endif %endif +%if 0%{?fedora} < 14 || 0%{?rhel} == 5 +rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/sysctl.d/libvirtd.conf +%endif + %clean rm -fr %{buildroot} @@ -1679,8 +1683,6 @@ fi %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/libvirt/libvirtd.conf %if 0%{?fedora} >= 14 || 0%{?rhel} >= 6 %config(noreplace) %{_prefix}/lib/sysctl.d/libvirtd.conf -%else -rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/lib/sysctl.d/libvirtd.conf %endif %dir %attr(0700, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/log/libvirt/qemu/ %dir %attr(0700, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/log/libvirt/lxc/ -- 1.7.4.1