[ale] rpm's src vs binary and the confusion

[Jim Kinney]

If you want the final location to be somewhere other than what the source
makefile provides, you add a patch to the spec and src.rpm that makes that
change.

The philosophy of rpm is pristine upstream sources with custom patches as
required.


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> Did you take a look at the document I linked in your last thread?
>
>        ->Yes that is the basis on which I was working out the tomcat rpm
> and Thank You for that wonderful document.
>
>
> Third, %install... If you would prefer, add a makefile to your source tar
> and call its install target. Otherwise just manually move the files to
> where they need to go.
>      ->So if I want the final install to be on /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.37,
> I need to do that hard lifting myself right ? as in
>      ->mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt
>      ->cp -R /home/virtual/rpmbuild/BUILD/apache-tomcat-7.0.37
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt
>
>       ->Will the above step then create the .rpm file ?
>
>
> I notice you don't have a %files manifest yet, that'll be next.
>
>        ->I thought %files are dummy section, is that needed ?
>
>
> -Narahari
>
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