Re: Knowing the location of a created binary rpm

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

--- James Olin Oden <james oden gmail com> wrote:

> 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}
Or just invoke rpmbuild with --define _rpmdir
<you_dir>,
So rpm will be created where you want have it.

Valery
> 
> 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
> 
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