On 06/08/2009 07:33 PM, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm packing a third party software and this third party software is a > tarball with a install.sh and other binaries. Well, this is a bit off topic for this list, but I'm in a good mood, so I'll try to answer your questions. > What's the better way to install these files? The problem with the install.sh is that it almost certainly has the install directories for those binaries hardcoded to /usr/bin. When you're installing files during %install in an rpm, you want to install those files into %{buildroot}%{_bindir}. > Or do I need to copy all install.sh commands inside %install section? > Something like this: > > %install > install -o root -w root -m 0755 bin1 %{_installdir}/bin1 > install -o root -w root -m 0755 bin2 %{_installdir}/bin2 So, yes, you need to do something like this: install -m 0755 bin1 %{buildroot}/%{_bindir} install -m 0755 bin2 %{buildroot}/%{_bindir} Make sure you have "BuildRoot:" defined in the top section of the spec file, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BuildRoot_tag for some recommended values. Also, %{_bindir} evaluates to /usr/bin, so it's the ideal macro to use here with the %{buildroot} prefix. > And one question just to confirm: do I need to list all bin* files > inside %files in both case, right? Yes, you can do it like this: %files %defattr(-,root,root,-) %{_bindir}/bin* Hope that helps, ~spot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging