On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:44:17AM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote: > > For a build POV, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is an added prefix to the install path. > > Which is pretty much what "prepends" means, and how I interpreted what > Anh said. ;-) But Anh was referring to the %files section. IMHO, the %files section is a list of filepaths that will be included in the target package, so talking about "prepending" directories there sounds confusing. > From an install point of view, or an %install point of view? I tend to > think of $RPM_BUILD_ROOT from a *build* point of view, possibly because of > that _BUILD_ in the middle of the env. I pretty much never think of it > as something that gets deleted at some later point. To me, it's something > that's there during the build process (which, in my little conceptual > world, includes %install). Well, if you consider %files just as the target tree and remember that this tree can be found below $RPM_BUILD_ROOT, no directory names have to be prepended or removed from the filenames at all... :-). -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
