Bob Proulx wrote:
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
le
Ah! You put the copy command in the spec file?? I was copying the file
to the RPM_BUILD_ROOT before the rpmbuild command.
Doug P
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