<div dir="ltr"><div>If you want the final location to be somewhere other than what the source makefile provides, you add a patch to the spec and src.rpm that makes that change.<br><br></div>The philosophy of rpm is pristine upstream sources with custom patches as required.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com" target="_blank">savithari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="im"><div>Did you take a look at the document I linked in your last thread?<br>
<br></div></div> ->Yes that is the basis on which I was working out the tomcat rpm and Thank You for that wonderful document.<div class="im"><br>
<br>Third, %install... If you would prefer, add a makefile to your source tar and call its install target. Otherwise just manually move the files to where they need to go.<br></div></div> ->So if I want the final install to be on /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.37, I need to do that hard lifting myself right ? as in<br>
</div> ->mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt<br></div> ->cp -R /home/virtual/rpmbuild/BUILD/apache-tomcat-7.0.37 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt<br><br></div> ->Will the above step then create the .rpm file ?<div class="im">
<br><br>I notice you don't have a %files manifest yet, that'll be next.<br>
<br></div></div> ->I thought %files are dummy section, is that needed ?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Narahari<br></font></span></div>
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