Fwd: Primitive use of rpm

[Rick Hedin <cubsno1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I noticed that there was a messup in the order of lines in the output from the rpmbuild command.  That is corrected below.

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I'm trying to be more explicit in response to Dan's comment.

 

wam.spec:   ---------------------------

Name:       webappmanager
Version:    2.0.7
Release:    1
   . . .

# BuildRoot:  /tmp/rpmash_work
# BuildDir:   /tmp/rpmash_work
Buildroot:  /tmp/rpmash_work/total_nonsense
%define _topdir    /tmp/rpmash_work
%define buildroot   /tmp/rpmash_work
%dump

%description
Web App Manager.  Also called Web App Server.

%files
/tmp/rpmash_work/pretend/wam.bash
/tmp/rpmash_work/merge_files.bash
/tmp/rpmash_work/webappmanager-dist-2.0.7-SNAPSHOT-dist.tar.gz

%post
bash -v -x ./wam.bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/rpmash_work/wam.bash.output | grep '^\*\*\*[    ]'

 

result of running rpmbuild:   -----------------------------

rpmbuild -bl wam.spec 2>&1 | less

   . . .

-14= _builddir  %{_topdir}/BUILD
-14= _buildrootdir      %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT
   . . . 

-14: _tmppath   %{_var}/tmp
  0: _topdir    /tmp/rpmash_work
-14: _transaction_color 0
   . . . 

-14: bcond_without      %{expand:%%{!?_without_%{1}:%%global with_%{1} 1}}
  0: buildroot  /tmp/rpmash_work
-14: cmake_kde4
   . . .

======================== active 365 empty 0
Processing files: webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386
error: File not found: /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386/tmp/rpmash_work/pretend/wam.bash
error: File not found: /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386/tmp/rpmash_work/merge_files.bash
error: File not found: /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386/tmp/rpmash_work/webappmanager-dist-2.0.7-SNAPSHOT-dist.tar.gz

RPM build errors:

    File not found: /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386/tmp/rpmash_work/pretend/wam.bash
    File not found: /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386/tmp/rpmash_work/merge_files.bash
    File not found: /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/webappmanager-2.0.7-1.i386/tmp/rpmash_work/webappmanager-dist-2.0.7-SNAPSHOT-dist.tar.gz

 

my questions:   ------------------------------

1. I set the buildroot: directive in the spec file, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.  It seems to me that it's insisting that the build root is /home/rickh/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT etc.  Perhaps I'm setting buildroot at the wrong point, and it gets overwritten?

2. I see that topdir and buildroot are used later in the build.  So I tried to set them to what I want.  But it didn't seem to make any difference.  Perhaps buildroot isn't the relevant symbol in the %files section?

 

I hope at least now it's clear what I'm *trying* to do.  Plainly I have a vast lack of perspective.

 

               Rick

 

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