rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/26/2006 11:20:25 AM:
>
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Fulko.Hew@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > Is there any way to specify a target filespec that is independent
> > of the file's location on the build machine.
> >
> > ie. on the build machine the source file is in
> > /home/me/myproject/src/myfile
> > but when installed, I want it to be in /bin/myfile on the target
> > machine.
> >
> > I can't find anything in the Maximum RPM book to point me in a
> > direction to
> > go.
> > I would have thought it would be something in the %files list.
> >
>
> The %files list should include the install, not the build, path.
>
> RPM_BUILD_ROOT (or the equivalently valued macro %{buildroot}) is
> where a mapping between build path and install path is achieved,
> basically
> by copying from the build path to the buildroot, something like the
> following
>
> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}
> ...
>
> %install
> rm -rf %{buildroot}
> mkdir -p %{buildroot}/bin
> ...
> cp /home/me/myproject/src/myfile %{buildroot}/bin
> ...
>
> %files
> %defattr(-,root,root)
> /bin/myfile
>
> It sounds like you are not using a BuildRoot: directive at all
> however, but
> that's just my guess.
Thanks.
I've unfortunately inherited the responsibility for all of the rpm spec
files for our products, and I (thought I) didn't understand the
relationship
between BuildRoot and the %install block. Especially, since our
%install block didn't use buildroot properly (so it didn't work the way
its supposed to) making me believe that I was 'missing' something in my
understanding.
Turns out I wasn't missing anything... I was looking at a bug propagated
across all of our spec files. :-(
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