need "cheat" to package installed files into RPMS

[devzero2000]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been building RPMs for a long time and I've always lectured new
> users about the need to build from source.
>
> Now I'm in a position where I need to completely ignore that advice.
>
> I have a directory of installed files like so:
>
> /usr/share/A
> /usr/share/B
> /usr/share/C
>
> and I'd like to build a a separate RPM for each subdirectory.
>
> I don't plan to share these RPMs to the outside world. I plan to share
> them among compute nodes in a cluster.
>
> I believe there are some other RPM *cheaters* lurking out there and
> I'd appreciate their advice. :)
>
> II do not know what could ever be the problem, but perhaps i have not
undestood it well. In the first place, but perhaps not exactly related, on
the following link there is the beginning of a discussion on HPC and rpm,
unfortunately without a clear answer (
http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-users/0469.html). Perhaps it could be of
interest anyway, who know.

For what you have asked i think that to make an rpm for each shared
directory seems simple.

1 - Create a tarball of any shared directory

cd /usr/share
tar -zcvf share-A-1.0.tar.gz A

2 - in% prep

..................
% prep
#
#
% setup -q-c
.................

3 - in install
%install
%{__rm} -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{__mkdir_p} -m 755                         \
    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share

%{__cp} -ap A $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share


4 - on the shared dir run a script like this - with the gnu findutils --

# / bin / bash

[! -d "$ 1"] & & (echo "ERROR: $ 0 directory"> & 2; exit 1;)
find "$ 1"-type f-printf '%% attr (% m,% u,% g)% p \ n'
find "$ 1"-type l-print
find "$ 1"-mindepth 0-type d-printf '%%% dir% attr (% m,% u,% g)% p \ n'

with the result and populates with the result the %files section.

There are also projects such dir2rpm http://gitorious.org/dir2rpm which
could also be useful in your case. btw, untested.


hth
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