On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Greg Swift <gregswift@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks!
With your attachments, it makes a _whole_ lot more sense!
Something that simple should have been included in the
original documentation and in 'Maximum RPM' to
'pull it all together'!
BTW. So far, all of my packageshave been Perl applications,On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:great :)
> This is basically my first attempt at RPM-ifying my apps
> (for internal coprporate distribution)...
> I'm probably doing this all wrong, but what I want to do is
> create a spec file that allows me to build an RPM based on
> the files in 'this' directory.
... snip ...
> but the first thing that rpmbuild does is cd into the build directory.ya, thats pretty much what it wants to do, and is considered a best practice.
>
> It seems that RPM building is always expecting to
> build from a tarball from an RPM SOURCE directory.
So The RPM process is basically:
> Is there anyway I can do this 'more simply'?
> or... what am I not groking about the whole process?
1: Take Source Tarball
2: Take SPEC file
3: Build software and wrap it into a package
For a lot of people that work directly off their own source that first
step can be very annoying, as you are complaining about. What that
step gives you though is source RPMs (SRPM). If you find a way to
build a package where your source is a directory (its possible, but
i'd rather not go into it because its horribly ugly... i'll give you
an alternative in a second) then your SRPMs are effectively useless
because it doesn't actually grab the source.
There are a few ways that people approach step 1.
1: A custom script that tars up the current directory and then runs the rpmbuild
2: A Makefile that does the same thing as the last step
3: Other programs like tito (http://rm-rf.ca/tito)
There is also a lot of good information here:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/index.html
Personally, I'm a fan of the Makefile. I'm attaching a sample
Makefile that would do what you are trying to do.
Thanks!
With your attachments, it makes a _whole_ lot more sense!
Something that simple should have been included in the
original documentation and in 'Maximum RPM' to
'pull it all together'!
so the need for SRPMs is sort of moot because my RPM effectively
_is_ the SRPM, hence my 'want' / need / approach to bypass the
whole SPRM/tarball phase.
But now that I understand that missing link... I'll change my evil ways.
Fulko
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