On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:05 +0000, Daren Chandisingh wrote:
> Essentially, the problem I have is that I can't work out
> how to get my files placed where I want them. For example,
> I have the following:
>
> BuildRoot: /usr/local/mydir
> Prefix: /usr/local/mydir
It looks like you are missing the idea of BuildRoot - more on that
further down.
> %files
> /stuff/server/Myprocess
> /stuff/server/Myfile
> # shared libraries
> /usr/lib/libStuff.so.1.0.0
>
> This is OK, and the files get found and packaged. However,
> upon installation they get dropped into /, rather than
> /usr/local/mydir
>
> I've tried various values for BuildRoot, including "/" which
> isn't allowed.
OK, the buildroot is intended to be separate root directory that you
install things under. So if your buildroot was /tmp and the file you
were installing was /bin/ls then you would have:-
BuildRoot: /tmp
%install
# add buildroot onto the paths - you also need
# to make directories
mkdir /tmp/bin
install ls /tmp/bin/ls
%files
/bin/ls # NB no buildroot
-------
Now to make this a little easier - especially because people make their
buildroot values depend on the package name - you normally use the macro
form of buildroot ( %{buildroot} ) or the shell variable
( $RPM_BUILDROOT ). So that previous fragment of a file is more likely
to look like:-
# Buildroot depends on package name/version
BuildRoot: /var/tmp/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}
%install
# clean the buildroot in case there are files in there
rm -rf %{buildroot}
# create the directories needed
mkdir %{buildroot}/bin
# install the files
install ls %{buildroot}/bin
%files
/bin/ls
> Also, I can't figure out how to install a symlink at the
> same time. What I need is for
> /usr/local/mydir/usr/lib/libStuff.so to point at
> /usr/local/mydir/usr/lib/libStuff.so.1.0.0, and although
> I have ln commands in the %install section, this doesn't
> appear to be the solution.
This sort of thing is often done by ldconfig - although for those
locations you will need to modify /etc/ld.so.conf or add a file
into /etc/ld.so.conf.d to add the paths of your libraries.
Alternatively you would have something like this in your %install
section:-
ln -s libStuff.so.1.0.0 %{buildroot}/usr/local/mydir/usr/lib/libStuff.so
and have both the libstuff.so* files in your %files section.
>
> Any help is much appreciated, thanks. I'd be just as
> grateful for a pointer to an up to date manual/web page
> for rpmbuild that will enable me to work it out for myself.
There is supposed to be stuff on
http://www.rpm.org/
although it used to be very out of date - not sure what its like now...
Nigel.
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