On Wednesday 03 July 2013 08:03:51 Kahlil Hodgson wrote:
> make sure you have rpmdevtools
>
> yum install rpmdevtools
>
> then run
>
> rpmdev-setuptree
>
> to setup the ~/rpmbuild tree structure
>
> Hope this helps
>
> K
>
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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Peter Wood <peterwood.sd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On CentOS5 I was used to create a simple spec file where at the end I'll
> > declare files and directories I wan't to package:
> >
> > --< Snip >--
> > %files
> > %dir /opt/myapp
> > %dir /opt/myapp/bin
> > %dir /opt/myapp/etc
> > /opt/myapp/bin/exec01
> > /opt/myapp/etc/myapp.conf
> > ----
> >
> > I'll copy the file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run "rpmbuild -bb
> > myapp.spec".
> >
> > On CentOS6 rpm-build package no longer creates the /usr/src/redhat/...
> > directory tree. I followed the CentOS6 Wiki instructions to setup my
> > rpmbuild environment for a regular user.
> >
> > When I try to build the package on CentOS6 I'm getting this error for every
> > single file and directory:
> >
> > File not found:
> > /home/peter/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/opt/myapp/bin/exec01
> >
> > I tried to override buildroot:
> >
> > rpmbuild -bb --define="buildroot /" myapp.spec
> > error: %{buildroot} can not be "/"
> >
> > As a workaround I can manually create
> > /home/peter/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/
> > and copy all my file in there but that's a lot of extra work.
> >
> > Is there a way to get the same functionality on CentOS6 where rpmbuild will
> > collect the files from the main / directory and build the rpm package?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > -- Peter
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Or you can set the _topdir variable to your liking:
cat /home/marcdeop/.rpmmacros
%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
%_smp_mflags -j3
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