rpmbuild
Section: (pj)
Updated: 2022-01-06
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DESCRIPTION
So an RPM spec file starts with a source tarball, uncompresses it,
builds from the source, installs the binaries, and then collects the
resulting files into an -rpm file.
There are two important directory structures:
- 1.
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The RPM directory structure, by default /usr/src/redhat.
rpmbuild looks for the tarball under SOURCES and expends it under BUILD.
"make" will happen in this directory.
To change this, add the following line (or something like it) to
~/.rpmmacros:
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%_topdir /home/pjungwir/src/rpmbuild
- 2.
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The (poorly named) build root, usually
%{_tmpdir}/%{name}-root, which is
/var/tmp/integratis-root or
/var/tmp/whatever-root.
Once everything is compiled and installed, rpmbuild will look here to
find the files you've listed under %files.
That means your build process should install files like
/var/tmp/whatever-root/bin/whatever and
/var/tmp/whatever-root/man/man1/whatever.1.
In other words, run configure like this:
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./configure --prefix=%{_tmpdir}/%{name}-root
You can set the build root with the BuildRoot parameter of your spec
file.
You should use a place where you can easily identify all the installed
files.
That way, you can run "rpmbuild -bi whatever.spec," then check
the install location to see everything you must include in the %files
target.
Incidentally, %{_tmpdir} is also where rpmbuild creates
various temporary scripts, with names like rpm-tmp.64172.
Each "target" in the spec file corresponds to one of these
scripts, although since they're all named the same for a given
invocation of rpmbuild, only the last target's file remains.
AUTHORS
Paul A. Jungwirth.
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