Re: turn a tarball into RPM

[Stephen Mah <steve mah oracle com>]

thanks Tim,
and to all that responded.

I read up on the buildroot, stuff. Makes sense now.

steve

Tim Mooney wrote:

> In regard to: Re: turn a tarball into RPM, Stephen Mah said (at 3:04pm 
> on...:
>
> > thanks for the tip:
> >
> > Now, I'm getting a weird error:
>
>
> You're bypassing the buildroot.  Modern RPM really really wants you to
> do buildroot packaging -- instead of dumping files into their final
> location in the %install section, you install them into a temporary spot
> for packaging (/var/tmp/<your-package-name-here> is common).
>
> Read up on BuildRoot installs in Maximum RPM and elsewhere.
>
> > Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
> > getOutputFrom(): Broken pipe
> >
> > It only happens when I have these 2 lines: install -m 644 %{SOURCE1} 
> > /usr/share/icons/foobar_enhancer.png, & 
> > /usr/share/icons/foobar_enhancer.png (under %files)
> >
> > %install
> > cp -r ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/foobar-enhancer /opt
> > install -m 644 %{SOURCE1} /usr/share/icons/foobar_enhancer.png
> >
> > %files
> > %defattr(-,root,desktop, 0775)
> > /opt/foobar-enhancer/*
> > /usr/share/icons/foobar_enhancer.png
>
>
> Tim