Re: Still no luck!

[Dominik Mierzejewski <dmierzej elka pw edu pl>]

On Wednesday, 17 October 2001, Matthew Allen wrote:
> Chaps,
> 
> Thanks for the help so far.
> I have re-architected the pkg.
> Our spec file has now changed and is shown below.
> I thought I had it sorted but now it complains about the
> chkconfig command!!!!!
> It says no such file or directory and Im Back to square one!
> As I say it installs fine if you rpm -i manually but doesnt work as
> an rpm within our redhat boot cd.
> 
> Any more ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
> Summary: The Genos package (binary only)
> Name: Genos
> Version: 1.0
> Release: 1
> Copyright: Red-M
> Group: System Environment/Daemons
> Source: /u/master/red-m

What is that? SourceN: tags are supposed to point to files like
tarballs or additional docs or configs.

You should also set buildroot like this:

BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root

> Prereq: /sbin/chkconfig
> 
> %description
> This is the full install of the Genos package.
> 
> %prep
> echo
> 
> %build
> echo
> 
> %install
> echo

Why is this section empty? This is where you install
your files into appropriate directories under %{buildroot}.

[snip] 
> %files
> %defattr(-,root,root)
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/genos-boot
> /usr/product/genos-extra/genos-initial-boot
> /usr/product/genos-extra/target.tgz

I always though that according to FHS such packages should
be installed in /opt.

HTH

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