[CentOS] An rpm specfile quesstion [SOLVED]

Fri Jan 19 20:25:44 UTC 2018
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I've built an rpm package to distribute an executable and datafiles, but I
> need to link to the executable, with the symlink with a different name,
> into /usr/sbin/
>
> If I make the symlink in the %post, it doesn't show if you do rpm -ql, and
> /usr/sbin/link gives "not owned by any package". If I make <build
> path>/usr/bin during the %install, trying to install it gives me
> /usr/sbin's already owned by the filesystem package.
>
> What's the correct way to do this, so it shows with rpm -ql?
>
Never mind, folks, the error was in my %files section. My manager had the
correct answer, to use /usr/libexec and /usr/sbin, so the build didn't try
to package the directories.

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