having problems wrapping a simple jar file in rpm

[mark meyer]

No.  I did not get a response to this question from this list.

thank you,
mark


Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:46:18 -0700
From: mark_maule at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: having problems wrapping a simple jar file in rpm
To: geeky2 at hotmail.com



Mark:
Did you ever get a response to this?  I have a similar situation where I want to gather up a handful of files from various places on a build machine into an RPM and then install them into specific locations on a target machine.
thanks
From: mark meyer <geeky2 at hotmail.com>
To: rpm-list at lists.rpm.org
Sent: Mon, March 7, 2011 1:50:25 PM
Subject:
 having problems wrapping a simple jar file in rpm







hello all,

need help wrapping a simple jar file in an rpm.

all of the examples i have found assume that you are going to create the rpm from source code.

for my application - i already have the "built" jar file and want to distribute it to a user as an rpm.

when i try to build the rpm - i get the following error:

>>
Processing files: maximus-2.0.0-1.i586
error: File not found: /home/mark/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/maximus-2.0.0-1.i386/home/mark/PWMP-EJB.jar


RPM build errors:
    File not found: /home/mark/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/maximus-2.0.0-1.i386/home/mark/PWMP-EJB.jar
<<

the single jar that i am trying to package up is really located in /home/mark/ on my build machine.


also - how do i specify that the contents of the rpm should "land" in a specific directory - example /var/sns/install-2.5.0.9/

thank you,
mark



here is my spec
 file:

mark at gecko3 rpmbuild > cat ./SPECS/mark.spec 

Summary: Maximus utility for handling everything
Name: maximus
Version: 2.0.0
Release: 1
License: GPL
Group: Development/Tools
 
 
%description
 
%build
 
%prep
 
%install
 
%clean
 
%post
 
%postrun
echo -e "i am in postrun \n"
 
 
%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
/home/mark/PWMP-EJB.jar



here are the settings in my .rpmmacros file
mark at gecko3 rpmbuild > cat ~/.rpmmacros 
%packager      mark meyer <mmeyer at primexinc.com>
%vendor        Primex Wireless
%_topdir       /home/mark/rpmbuild/

 		 	   		  




 		 	   		  
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