Wesley Leggette wrote:
> Do the files listed with %files refer to files before %install is run,
> or after?
After. It refers to files in the buildroot image location.
> I have the following setup in the binary tarball I use with rpmbuild:
>
> /usr/local/bin/foo
> /usr/local/lib/libfoo.so
> /usr/local/etc/init.d/foo
> /usr/local/etc/foo/foo.conf
>
> In the spec file I have:
What is your BuildRoot: set to? Hopefully it is set to something
similar to:
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
Because if not then you will be packaging files from your live
filesystem and installing to your live filesystem neither of which are
good.
> Prefix: /usr/local
Is your package really relocatable? Can I relocate the installation
to a new prefix without making any other changes to your files? Few
packages handle that correctly. If so then Prefix: is appropriate.
If not then probably defining _prefix is better.
%define _prefix /usr/local
In which case change prefix to _prefix throughout the file.
s/%{prefix}/%{_prefix}/g
> %install
>
> if test -d %{buildroot}%{prefix}/etc
> mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc
> mv %{buildroot}%{prefix}/etc/* %{buildroot}/etc/
> rm -rf %{buildroot}%{prefix}/etc
> fi
Extra persnickety here because that looks pretty good. But I would be
slightly, slightly safer and change the rm -rf there to rmdir. You
have already moved all of the files so an rmdir should pass. But
really you should be able to simply move the directory.
if test -d %{buildroot}%{prefix}/etc
mv %{buildroot}%{prefix}/etc %{buildroot}/
fi
> %files
> %{prefix}/*
> %config /etc/foo/foo.conf
>
> Will such a setup work?
I think it should work.
> On the other hand, can I do this:
>
> %files
> /*
> %config /etc/foo/foo.conf
That would package up the /usr and /usr/local and /usr/local/bin
etc. directories and make them owned by your package. That would be a
bad thing. (Just the directories without the other contents. But
just the same they should not be owned by your package.)
After you build your package you should inspect it with rpm and
determine that all of the contents are the contents that you want in
your package. Nothing more and nothing less.
rpm -qpl package-*.rpm
rpm -qplv package-*.rpm
Bob
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