On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, AliN wrote: > Hi James > > Thanks for your reply.. yes rpmbuild is working..:) > > Now trying to create my special SPEC file I have done it as noarch and I > have removed all, build, prep, install and clean sections and have only > %file..Now I have following questions. > > 1 - When binary .rpm file id created.. does it contains all the files > defined in %file section? > Yes. > 2 - %files lists the files to be packaged > Yes. Really the answer to 1 is a result of 2. > 3 - I assume I don't need to have %install to install files as %file section > does the installation process. > No, you need %install to copy the files into your build root. %files then looks for the files listed offset the build root, and packages them up. At install time the files that were listed by %files will be delivered to the system. Really, %install is kind of a misnomer, in that it is a build time script not an install time script. Its name probably comes from the fact that it is in %install that "make install" is generally run, and because it "installs" the files to the build root. > 4 - How do I define the directories in which the packaged files have to be > installed... in the target machine.. > %files lists files where they will be found on the build machine. In %install you cp them to that location offset the build root. So if your spec file had the one file /usr/bin/e to deliver, you would have soemthing like: ... BuildRoot: /tmp/root ... %install mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT cp e $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/e ... %files /usr/bin/e Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
