commit 4018bbd08e84fd0cc227dcb8d2dc20693ce2296a
Author: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 15 10:56:58 2009 +0300

    Allow absolute paths in file lists again (SuseBug:535594, RhBug:521760)
    - patch from OpenSUSE / Michael Schroeder
    - build-time generated file lists should be placed in the build directory,
      but at least one valid use case for this is things like %files -f %{SOURCE10}

diff --git a/build/files.c b/build/files.c
index b5c5437..061494d 100644
--- a/build/files.c
+++ b/build/files.c
@@ -1755,9 +1755,13 @@ static rpmRC processPackageFiles(rpmSpec spec, Package pkg,
 
 	argvSplit(&filelists, getStringBuf(pkg->fileFile), "\n");
 	for (fp = filelists; *fp != NULL; fp++) {
-	    ffn = rpmGetPath("%{_builddir}/",
-		(spec->buildSubdir ? spec->buildSubdir : "") ,
-		"/", *fp, NULL);
+	    if (**fp == '/') {
+		ffn = rpmGetPath(*fp, NULL);
+	    } else {
+		ffn = rpmGetPath("%{_builddir}/",
+		    (spec->buildSubdir ? spec->buildSubdir : "") ,
+		    "/", *fp, NULL);
+	    }
 	    fd = fopen(ffn, "r");
 
 	    if (fd == NULL || ferror(fd)) {