Douglas Phillipson wrote: > I have a GNU build system gzipped tar file in the SOURCES dir, I have a > file, that is not compiled but it is tracked by the build system. I > can't seem to get it included in the RPM file. How do I get any file I > want put in the rpm file? By including it in the %files section. > I tried putting it in the filesystem Where did you put it in the filesystem? Please be specific. > and declaring it in te %files section but I get an error from > rpmbuild that it can't find the file. What might I be doing wrong? You probably did not include it into the rpm build root area. All files listed in %files need to be found in the rpm build root area. That is a staging area where an installation image is created and packaged. You must put the file there. Typically in the spec file you will find a %install section. In the %install section you will find a %makeinstall macro that will expand to be 'make install DEST=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT' which will copy files with the gnu automake makefile to the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT area. That would probably be a good place to also copy your additional file. %install %makeinstall cp my_special_etc_file $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/ cp my_special_bin_file $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/ Bob _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
