Re: [Fwd: Building an RPM from a compiled application]

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:20:43AM -0500, Bill Woodward wrote:
> Ah, I believe that I have figured out both issues.
> 
> 1) Prefix in the %post script.  I set the Prefix: value in my spec file
> to /home/dazel (typically where we install), and made sure that all of
> the files in the %files list started with /home/dazel/<rest of the
> path>.  Changing the prefix with 'rpm -vv --install --prefix /tmp/dazel'
> works fine.
> 
> In the %post script, I reference the install directory as
> $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX.  So, to run the perl script I need to run, I do:
> 
> %post
> cd $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX/repository/etc
> perl ./setperm
> 
> and everything works fine.
> 
> Now, is that right? (the use of RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX?)  Or is there
> another way to do it.  I found RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX by running 'strings'
> on rpm and greping for prefix.  Not exactly ideal documentation :-)
> 

RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX is the way to do this.

> 2) Files not being removed during erase.  Um, actually, the files are
> being removed.  The directories are not, however, but I imagine that
> this is intentional.  It just happens that in my case, I expect to *not*
> install into /usr/bin (or whatever), so it would be OK to remove the
> directories.
> 

If your package does not explicitly include the directories in the %files
manifest, then cpio will silently create the directories during install
and (correctly) not remove the directories during erase.

73 de Jeff

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