On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 06:09:21PM -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Sure. I think I'm closer, but I'm also at the point where I'm just trying things. My current issue, that I keep falling back to, is the install *INSISTS* that it has to add a - after version.
%prep
%install mkdir $RPM_BUILD_DIR/opt/smipmicfg-%{version} install -m 744 -d %{buildroot}/%{name}-%{version}
%clean rm -rf %{buildroot}
%files %{buildroot}/%{name}
All I want to build is a package to create /opt/smipmicfg-1.20.0, and copy files into it.
What I see from the rpmbuild is
- cd /usr//local//src//rpmbuild/BUILD
- '['
/usr/local/src/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/smipmicfg-1.27.0-.el7.centos.x86_64 '!=' / ']' And you see that "-" after the name/version
You're missing a lot of package metadata in your spec file.
I suggest starting over, install rpmdevtools, use:
rpmdev-newspec -t minimal smipmicfg
It will create a file smipmicfg.spec, and it will be fully populated with a mimimal spec file. You can probably just remove the %build section entirely, and just use the %install section to extract the contents of the tarball (or just create the dir and copy %{SOURCE0} to %buildroot/opt/smipmicfg-1.20.0 if it's just one file and not a tarball). It sounds like most of the problems you're having is that you've got a fragment of a SPEC file and not the whole thing.
Don't build as root, let it build in your homedir (or use mock, but lets leave that until you've got a basic RPM building). There's absolutely no reason you should be building RPMs as root.