Your last comment was the solution. This had really confused me.
In Summary: What you have told me is I need to build what I want to
install in the %{buildroot} directory of the rpm environment. After it
is built properly, then all I need to do is add the files or directories
of what I want installed in %file section of rpm and it will install
from the "root" location of the system. In everything I had read, that
simple idea as to how rpm works seem to have been obscure to me. I did
not understand that the %file section was used to assigned the files and
directories as well as attributes. Thanks again for answering my novice
question.
Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
>> I have had previously added an install shell scripts that actually
>> did an install.
>>
>> This is what it consisted of in my spec file:
>>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> %install
>> sh ./installer.sh
>>
>>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> The script was in the q-statusLinux-5.10.tar-gz file and this is what I
>>
> was:
>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> VAR=$1
>> if [ "${VAR}" == "no" ]; then
>> echo "**********************NO*****************"
>> exit;
>> fi
>>
>> cd ../
>> tar cf - q-statusLinux-5.10 | (cd /var/local; tar xf -)
>> echo "**********************INSTALLED*****************"
>>
>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>> When I do rpmbuild it actually installs the program on the machine
>> where I am building the rpm and makes me an rpm (But does not update
>> the Package Manager- no surprise there). But when I export the rpm
>> to another machine and install it. Nothing gets installed except the
>> Package Manager gets updated. What Am I missing, here?
>>
>
> The work you are doing with that script doesn't really put the files where
> the rpmbuild process wants them. For what you are doing it would want them
> in %{buildroot}/var/local not /var/local.
>
>
> You still need to list the files in the %files section.
>
>
>
> -greg
>
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