Re: Knowing the location of a created binary rpm

[James Olin Oden <james oden gmail com>]

On 2/16/06, Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to rpm development. I was able to build a binary rpm and I saw
> that it was placed in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/.
>
> I'm building the rpm from a makefile and I'd like to copy it to another
> directory after it's created. How can I know the path of the generated rpm?
>
Packages are named (this is their full path):

   %{_rpmdir}/%{_build_name_fmt}

So this little bash script will produce that path if you provided
their name, version, release and arch in that order (NVRA).

   N=$1
   V=$2
   R=$3
   A=$4
   rpm \
       --define "NAME ${N}" \
       --define "VERSION ${V}" \
       --define "RELEASE ${R}" \
       --define "ARCH ${A}" \
       --eval '%{expand:%{_rpmdir}/%{_build_name_fmt}}'

Alternatively, most everywhere the package gets named:

   N-V-R.A.rpm

And they end up under "%{_rpmdir}/A/"

So you can simply get the value of %_rpmdir and and just build the
rest of the path, but the above script can work when the value of
_build_name_fmt has been changed.

Cheers...james