hardcode files in %files stanza

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Hi Barry,

I'm not sure I understand what you try to do. But when building RPM's,
you do install things as, for example, %{BUILDROOT}/usr/bin/file and in
the files section you then would set /usr/bin/file. This it the standard
which surely was in place when I started buiding RPM's and that was
before F10.

So once again for clarity:
The file to be included in the RPM is to be found on your system as
        %{BUILDROOT}/usr/bin/file
and in the files section, this file is referenced as
        /usr/bin/files
(without the BUILDROOT part).

If you really included files installed on your system and not under
%{BUILDROOT}, then you definitely did something wrong.

Hope this helps,

Kurt

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:02:51PM -0600, Barry Cisna wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am making some advances on rpm building after installing FC10. I am a
> novice at rpmbuilding,and am wondering if there is a workaround for
> hardcoding files into the %files section of the spec file? You used to
> be able to do this,but it appears on FC10 anyway it checks for
> buildroot.
> I would like to add some files/binaries that are on my system to the
> files section but when I add them by the path,when trying to build
> rpmbuild looks for everything at buildroot.
> %files
> /usr/bin/file
> /usr/sbin/file2
> ,,, no longer works.
> When i try and place the files in either the BUILD or BUILDROOT
> directory,,of course this fails miserably also.
> Ideas?
> 
> Thank You,
> Barry
> 
> 
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