Re: Need help with rpmbuild

[Steve Blackwell]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:21:16 -0400
Todd Zullinger  wrote:
> Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > Specifically the install section. I'm not understanding how the
> > %install section works with the %files section.
> > I hope this is not considered OT.
> The RPM_BUILD_ROOT should exactly mirror the direcotry structure you
> want to have your package files installed into.  If you want the file
> in /tmp, then you would want to use $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp as the
> destination.  You must create RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp.  If it was me, I'd
> use the install command to do this in one step:
>
> %install
> install -p -m755 -D %{name} RPM_BUILD_ROOT/tmp/%{name}

Ah, Thanks. That helped. Now I need to lookup the syntax of the install
macro. 
And thanks to Chris & JD too.

Steve