Re: [Fedora-packaging] what a buildroot is

[Kamal Ahmed]

Björn,
Thank you so much, that was it.
and now:

rpm -pql /home/kahmed/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/pcore-0.1-Beta.i386.rpm
/usr/bin/ggsnc
/usr/share/doc/pcore-0.1
/usr/share/doc/pcore-0.1/NEWS


Thanks,
-Kamal.


> ________________________________
>  From: Björn Persson <bjorn(a)xn--rombobjrn-67a.se&gt;
> To: Kamal Ahmed <kamal2222ahmed(a)yahoo.com>; Discussion of RPM packaging standards
> and practices for Fedora <packaging(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 5:59 PM
> Subject: what a buildroot is
>  
> Kamal Ahmed wrote:
> > Name: foo ... BuildRoot: /tmp/%{name} %prep ... %build ... %install install
> > -m755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/obj/ggsnc/ggsnc %{_bindir}/ %files /usr/bin/ggsnc
>
> I think I see the misunderstanding. Perhaps it will help you if I point out 
> that "buildroot" is a very badly chosen word. It should have been called 
> "installroot". The buildroot is not where the build takes place, it's a 
> staging directory that you install into. That "chroot" or "root simulated 
> environment" you're asking for, that's what the buildroot is.
>
> In other words, you shouldn't try to copy files *from* the buildroot, you 
> should copy them *to* the buildroot.
>
> Use these spec file fragments:
>
> # Define a temporary installation root.
> BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
>
> %install
> # Make an empty installation root.
> rm -rf %{buildroot}
> mkdir -p %{buildroot}
> # Make directories in the installation root.
> mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
> # Copy files to the installation root.
> cp obj/ggsnc/ggsnc %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
>
> %files
> %{_bindir}/ggsnc
>
> Be sure to note carefully where I have used "%{buildroot}" in the code above, 
> and where I have not used it.
>
> (It doesn't matter much whether you use "%{buildroot}" (an RPM macro) or 
> "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" (a shell variable). I prefer the RPM macro because I think 
> it makes the spec file more readable.)
>
>
> By the way, please don't reply to another message unless the message you're 
> writing is actually a reply to that message. This thread is shown as replies 
> to a question from Mihamina Rakotomandimby that it actually has nothing to do 
> with.
>
> Björn Persson
>
>
>