Re: [Fedora-packaging] Question regarding packaging standalone java jar's.

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 04:46:47PM -0500, Eric Griffith wrote:
>  Hey all,
>  
>  First off, let me just get this out of the way: Not looking to get
>  this package into the repo's or even into RPMFusion, I'm just playing
>  around to help myself learn and I had this on hand.
>   
[snip]
>  I'm assuming that i should be creating the directory structure under
>  %prep, yes? via "mkdir -p" but wouldn't it then get deleted when
>  %install happened? and what would even be the correct command
>  sequence? $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}/ ? then copy %source0 into said
>  directory?
>  
%prep is for preparing to build.  So things like untarring source files and
applying patches.

%build is for actually building.

%install is for putting things into the %{buildroot} (aka $RPM_BUILD_ROOT).

So in your example, since there is no source (you're just dropping the files
you retrieved into the filesystem), you'd want to do your mkdir -p and cp -p
SOURCEFILE %{buildroot}/DESTINATION_DIR/FILENAME in %install.

-Toshio