Re: How to install a mountpoint directory from an rpm?

[Robert Marcano]

On 4/30/19 11:45 AM, David Howells wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I need to install a directory (/afs) that will be a mountpoint that a systemd
>  service (also installed in the rpm) will mount upon.
>  
>  What's the best way to encode this in the specfile?
>  
>  I did have:
>  
>  	%files
>  	/afs
>  
>  but that doesn't upgrade correctly.  Someone gave me another way to do it: 
Just create it on your %install section

   mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/afs

and continue adding the reference on the %files like:

%file
%dir /afs

>  
>  	%post
>  	%systemd_post afs.mount
>  
>  	# Create /afs directory if it doesn't exist
>  	if [ ! -d /afs ]; then
>  	    mkdir /afs
>  	    chown root.root /afs
>  	    chmod 0755 /afs
>  	    [ -x /usr/sbin/restorecon ] && /usr/sbin/restorecon /afs
>  	fi
>  
>  	%files
>  	%ghost %dir /afs
>  
>  but rpmlint complains about the chown:
>  
>  	kafs-client.x86_64: W: dangerous-command-in-%post chown
>  
>  The git repo is here:
>  
>  	http://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/kafs-client.git/shortlog/refs/hea...
>  
>  
>  The second patch from the top is the one that tries to fix the mountpoint dir
>  installation issue ("spec: Treat /afs special").
>  
>  Thanks,
>  David
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