>> Hi all, >> >> New rpmbuild user here (building a binary package). >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong: the %install section of the spec file gets >> executed both at "rpmbuild -bb" and at "rpm -i|U" time. > >That's incorrect; %install gets executed at package build time, not when the >package is installed via -i, -U, or -F. OK. What, then, tells "rpm -i|U|F" what to do (which directories to create if missing, which files to put there, etc). -nik