curl packaging under different location prefix

Fabricio Cannini fcannini at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 17:18:40 UTC 2014


On 09-12-2014 15:08, neubyr wrote:
>
> I am trying to build curl with OpenSSL RPM and install it in /opt
> location. I have changed prefix and other macros as follows:
>
> %define _prefix /opt
> %define _datadir %{_prefix}/share
> %define _datarootdir %{_prefix}/share
> %define _mandir %{_datadir}/man
> %define _defaultdocdir %{_datadir}/doc
> %define _docdir %{_datadir}/doc
> %define _infodir %{_datadir}/info
>
> Curl binary and man page gets packaged for installation under /opt tree,
> however, other doc pages get packaged using default /usr/share/doc
> location.
>
>
> * Listing files in resulting RPM
> # rpm -qlp /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/curl-7.19.7-41.el6.x86_64.rpm
> /opt/bin/curl
> /opt/share/man/man1/curl.1
> /usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7
> /usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7/BUGS
> /usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7/FAQ
> /usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7/FEATURES
>
>
> * Snippet of 'rpmbuild -ba' output:
>
> + exit 0
> Processing files: curl-7.19.7-41.el6.x86_64
> Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.igiGgT
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> + cd curl-7.19.7
> +
> DOCDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILDROOT/curl-7.19.7-41.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7
> + export DOCDIR
> + rm -rf
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILDROOT/curl-7.19.7-41.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7
> + /bin/mkdir -p
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILDROOT/curl-7.19.7-41.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7
> + cp -pr docs/BUGS docs/FAQ docs/FEATURES
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILDROOT/curl-7.19.7-41.el6.x86_64/usr/share/doc/curl-7.19.7
> + exit 0
>
>
>
> I am wondering why DOCDIR is getting set with usr/share path and how can
> I change it to use /opt path. Am I missing anything in the macros
> definition? Any pointers in solving this will be helpful.

I'm not 100% sure, but this might be because you are using '%doc' in the 
'%files' section of the spec file.

Try creating '%_docdir' manually and putting the files there ( with 'cp' 
or 'install' ) instead of using '%doc' and see if it works.

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