CentOS - Jul 2013 - rpmbuild environment CentOS5 vs CentOS6

On CentOS5 I was used to create a simple spec file where at the end I'll
declare files and directories I wan't to package:

--< Snip >--
%files
%dir /opt/myapp
%dir /opt/myapp/bin
%dir /opt/myapp/etc
/opt/myapp/bin/exec01
/opt/myapp/etc/myapp.conf
----

I'll copy the file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run "rpmbuild -bb
myapp.spec".

On CentOS6 rpm-build package no longer creates the /usr/src/redhat/...
directory tree. I followed the CentOS6 Wiki instructions to setup my
rpmbuild environment for a regular user.

When I try to build the package on CentOS6 I'm getting this error for every
single file and directory:

File not found:
/home/peter/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/opt/myapp/bin/exec01

I tried to override buildroot:

  rpmbuild -bb --define="buildroot /" myapp.spec
  error: %{buildroot} can not be "/"

As a workaround I can manually create
  /home/peter/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/
  and copy all my file in there but that's a lot of extra work.

Is there a way to get the same functionality on CentOS6 where rpmbuild will
collect the files from the main / directory and build the rpm package?

Thank you,

-- Peter

make sure you have rpmdevtools

    yum install rpmdevtools

then run

    rpmdev-setuptree

to setup the ~/rpmbuild tree structure

Hope this helps

K


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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Peter Wood <peterwood.sd at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On CentOS5 I was used to create a simple spec file where at the end
I'll
> declare files and directories I wan't to package:
>
> --< Snip >--
> %files
> %dir /opt/myapp
> %dir /opt/myapp/bin
> %dir /opt/myapp/etc
> /opt/myapp/bin/exec01
> /opt/myapp/etc/myapp.conf
> ----
>
> I'll copy the file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run "rpmbuild -bb
> myapp.spec".
>
> On CentOS6 rpm-build package no longer creates the /usr/src/redhat/...
> directory tree. I followed the CentOS6 Wiki instructions to setup my
> rpmbuild environment for a regular user.
>
> When I try to build the package on CentOS6 I'm getting this error for
every
> single file and directory:
>
> File not found:
> /home/peter/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/opt/myapp/bin/exec01
>
> I tried to override buildroot:
>
>   rpmbuild -bb --define="buildroot /" myapp.spec
>   error: %{buildroot} can not be "/"
>
> As a workaround I can manually create
>   /home/peter/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/
>   and copy all my file in there but that's a lot of extra work.
>
> Is there a way to get the same functionality on CentOS6 where rpmbuild will
> collect the files from the main / directory and build the rpm package?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -- Peter
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