Re: What is up with BuildRoot ?

[Dinh Tien Tuan Anh <sooth_sayer_84 yahoo com>]

 Thank you Tim, 
 
I guess that's why RPM prepends the BuildRoot to the %file section automatically. Totally make sense
 
 Cheers
 Anh.
 
> > Ok, that works fine. But if i bring the binary RPM package to install
> > somewhere else, the software is still installed in /usr/bin or other
> > root-access directory.  So with the binary RPM, does it ALWAYS get
> > installed in the system directory, no matter how it was built ????
>
> It always gets installed based on the paths you specify in the %files
> section.  If you specify /usr/bin/foo, that's where the "foo" file or
> directory will be installed when you use "rpm -ivh" or whatever to
> actually install that packages on the target system(s).
>
> If your %files section uses /usr/local/bin/foo or /opt/MySoft/bin/foo,
> then that's where "foo" would get
>  installed.
>
>

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