Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 06:09:21PM -0500, m.roth at 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. The "most of a specfile" is something I copied and hacked. Thanks, I'd seen and installed rpmdevtools, but your comments help. Much appreciated. <snip> And I'm about to take off for a long weekend, so I'll be back at this next week. Happy New Year to all, and may the new one be better than the old (PLEASE!). mark