[ale] rpm's src vs binary and the confusion

[Scott McBrien]

Yes, usually the make file of the OSS you're packaging will take care of moving things for the install, buy because you don't have a makefile, you get to do all the moving of the files yourself.  You might have to jiggle the copy command you're using.  I can't remember if the cwd of the rpmbuild is the SOURCES directory or the untarred sourcecode dir, I think it's the latter.

%files is certainly not a dummy section, it is the file payload manifest for the rpm metadata.  One trick to make it is to run the build without it, then copy the list of files from the build error that's produced.  That will save you some typing.

-Scott

On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:31 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you take a look at the document I linked in your last thread?
> 
>        ->Yes that is the basis on which I was working out the tomcat rpm and Thank You for that wonderful document.
> 
> 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.
>      ->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
>      ->mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt
>      ->cp -R /home/virtual/rpmbuild/BUILD/apache-tomcat-7.0.37 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt
> 
>       ->Will the above step then create the .rpm file ?
> 
> I notice you don't have a %files manifest yet, that'll be next.
> 
>        ->I thought %files are dummy section, is that needed ?
> 
> 
> -Narahari
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