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Hello,

I have been following various guides on the internet to see how to build a simple RPM. I think I've got the general idea, but when it comes to editing the spec file they all seem to have a different idea, and some of them goive spec file examples that don't look like the skeleton specfile I have.

I am using rpmdevtools-7.5-2 (x86). My simple demo spec file is below:

Code:

Name:          Hello

Version:        1.0

Release:        1%{?dist}

Summary:        A script to shout a brother yo



Group:          Amusements/Games

License:        GPL

URL:            http://google.com

Source0:        /home/rpmbuilder/rpmbuild/SOURCES/hello.tar.gz

BuildArch:      noarch

BuildRoot      /tmp



#BuildRequires:  

#Requires:      



%description

My test rpm thing



%prep

%setup -q





%build

#%configure

#make %{?_smp_mflags}





%install

rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

#make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT

install -d 0755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin

install -m 0755 hello.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin



%clean

rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT





%files

%dir /usr/bin

%defattr(-,root,root,-)

/usr/bin/hello.sh

%doc







%changelog

So what I've done here is-

rpmdev-setuptree to create the build tree (BUILD, SOURCES, SPECS and so on)

Wrote a bash script containing 'echo "Hello World"' and turn it into an executable called hello.sh

Then I've tar/gzipped that into SOURCES directory
tar -cvzf SOURCES/hello.tar.gz hello.sh

Then ran rpmdev-newspec and populated it with the basic information in the quote above. I'm not bothered about URL being google.com, and I think (at least rpmbuild hasn't compolained about using path to the SOURCE directory as Source0.

But two problems I see, BuildRoot- as there's no complilation required, can't I just have /tmp for this? Or does it have top be a string of Macros describing a path, and if so- path to where, to the SOURCE directory? The guides I have followed so far don't seem clear on this point at all.

Which means furthe down, where I've put...

install -d 0755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
install -m 0755 hello.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin

do those locations look ok (should result in /tmp/usr/bin) given what I've set as my BuildRoot? In some examples BuildRoot was a string of percentage symbols and curly brackets... Any pointers at all would be appreciated.