How do I install an entire directory under /var with rpm

[Michael Barto]

Your last comment was the solution. This had really confused me.

In Summary: What you have told me is I need to build what I want to 
install in the %{buildroot} directory of the rpm environment. After it 
is built properly, then all I need to do is add the files or directories 
of what I want installed in %file section of rpm and it will install 
from the "root" location of the system. In everything I had read, that 
simple idea as to how rpm works seem to have been obscure to me. I did 
not understand that the %file section was used to assigned the files and 
directories as well as attributes. Thanks again for answering my novice 
question.

Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
>> I have had previously added an install shell scripts that actually
>> did an install.
>>
>> This is what it consisted of in my spec file:
>>
>>     
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>> %install
>> sh ./installer.sh
>>
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>>     
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>> The script was in the q-statusLinux-5.10.tar-gz file and this is what I
>>     
> was:
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>> #!/bin/sh
>> VAR=$1
>> if [ "${VAR}" == "no" ]; then
>>     echo "**********************NO*****************"
>>     exit;
>> fi
>>
>> cd ../
>> tar cf -  q-statusLinux-5.10 | (cd /var/local; tar xf -)
>> echo "**********************INSTALLED*****************"
>>
>>     
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>> When I do rpmbuild it actually installs the program on the machine
>> where I am building the rpm and makes me an rpm (But does not update
>> the Package Manager- no surprise there). But when I export the rpm
>> to another machine and install it. Nothing gets installed except the
>> Package Manager gets updated.  What Am I missing, here?
>>     
>
> The work you are doing with that script doesn't really put the files where
> the rpmbuild process wants them.  For what you are doing it would want them
> in %{buildroot}/var/local not /var/local.
>
>
> You still need to list the files in the %files section.
>
>
>
> -greg
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