Re: packaging up a bunch of files

[Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 2/1/06, Tom Hicks <headhunter3 gmail com> wrote:
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> On 2/1/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
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> > On 2/1/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to package up a bunch of files (pre-built binaries) that should
> > > get installed to /usr/local/some/path.
> > >
> > > Would the following spec snippet be ok?
> > >
> > > BuildRoot: %{_tmpdir}/%{name}-%{version}-root
> > >
> > > %description
> > > Description here
> > >
> > > %prep
> > > %setup
> > >
> > > %build
> > > # Nothing, it's already built.
> > >
> > > %install
> > > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > > mkdir -p
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/local/%{name}-%{version}
> > > cp -R .
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/local/%{name}-%{version}
> > >
> > > %files
> > > # What goes here?  I just want all the files that were in the tar.gz
> > > file to be installed to /usr/local/some/path.
> >
> > I have
> > %files
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/local/%{name}-%{version}
> >
> > But that gives an error at the very end saying:
> >
> > RPM build errors:
> >     File must begin with "/": $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/gcc-3.3.1
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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>  you need to give the path relative to the BuildRoot so for example
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>  %files
>  %{_prefix}/local/%{name}-%{version}

Ah, thanks.  And thanks to everyone for putting up with my stupid questions!