Re: rpm building

[Jeffrey C. O. <je...@ol...>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:58:00AM +1000, David Leonard wrote:
> 
> I just commited Build/template.spec which could help someone doing the 
> rpm packaging.
> 
> I not sure how to build the package without having to first properly
> install things. You see, I don't have root access to a linux box so I
> can't actually install anything. I thought maybe with RPM I could do this: 
> 
> 	Prefix: /tmp/myroot/usr
> 	%install
> 	mkdir -p /tmp/myroot/usr
> 	make install DESTDIR=/tmp/myroot/usr
> 
> but then, that would be a confusing default.
> 
> The BSD packaging system allows you to build packages without modifying the
> ultimate target directories.

RPM has a similar mechanism:

Prefix:    /usr
BuildRoot: %{_tmp}/%{name}-%{version}-root

%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}
make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}

Note: the %{buildroot} macro only works in more recent versions of
RPM. $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is the equivalent (but deprecated) variable to
use in older versions of RPM.

Jeff