I am trying to package a java application into an RPM. I have gone through several tutorials and I am also able to make an RPM but there are some issue with it that I am unable to figure out. Basically, the java app consists of a couple of jars, a property file, and a shell script to trigger the app. jars are generated by ant. Now, even after reading so much about rpm spec files, I am totally confused about the following things - ? 1. Where should I put my jars and other files? rpm/SOURCES or rpm/BUILD? Since my jars are already ready (created by ant) I don't want to do anything in "build" section. There is nothing to build. Right? 2. What should I do in "Install" section? I would like to have the user install the application (i.e. the jars) in /home/username/javaapps/myapp. Should I actually install (i.e. just create this directory structure /home/annb/javaapps/myapp) or should I create this dir structure under Install? 3. what should go in the files section? As I understand, all the files that I want in the rpm should be listed here. But I am totally lost about from where should I pick the files? From BUILD or from INSTALL? 4. This is what I have in my spec file. (Shown below). When it creates an rpm, the rpm contains the hardcoded directoty structure i.e. /home/annb/... Please help. I am really tired of this now. ? [code] %define _prefix???????? /home/robert/javaapps %define name????? PCMonitor %define summary?? PC Monitor %define version?? 1 %define release?? 1 %define license?? GPL %define group???? Development/Languages %define source??? http://none.net %define url?????? http://none.net %define vendor??? None %define packager? Ann B Name:????? %{name} Version:?? %{version} Release:?? %{release} Packager:? %{packager} Vendor:??? %{vendor} License:?? %{license} Summary:?? %{summary} Group:???? %{group} Source:??? %{source} URL:?????? %{url} Prefix:??? %{_prefix} BuildArchitectures: noarch %description PC Monitor %prep %build cp -r %{_topdir}/SOURCES/*? %{_topdir}/BUILD/pcmonitor %install cp -r %{_topdir}/BUILD/*? %{_prefix}/pcmonitor %clean %files %{_prefix}/pcmonitor [/code] ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-list/attachments/20081017/a8097147/attachment.htm
