Hi James Thanks for your help so far.. I have NOW got my rpm file which is used only as a program installer.. and works OK but I have got the following problem.. In SPEC file in %files section I have some Configuration files which I have set them as config files as below: %files %config /home/etc/ftp/ftp-config.txt This is to avoid over-writing the old of config files which are already installed by previous rpm instillation. What I Mean that when I use rpm to upgrade I don't want the rpm copy the config files if ther are ready there. But putting %config does not work and when I upgrade the program are copied. What I am doing wrong and how I can I prevent the config files to installed when upgrading Cheers Ali ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Olin Oden" <joden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Using rpm as installer > 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 > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
