On Monday, September 12, 2011 06:00:32 PM Jon Detert wrote: > i'm a newbie at building rpms. I made a few rpms years ago, but can't now > make one on Centos 5. > > In /usr/local/rpmbuild, there are 5 subdirs: BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS > SRPMS tmp
It's not a good idea to build rpms as root (unless in a throw-away vm). Build as user or even better using mock. That said, many a broken rpmbuild can be blamed on missing the redhat-rpm-config package (containing lots of rpm macros). If that's not the case I'd try rebuilding a known good src.rpm with "rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm" to validate your setup. /Peter > When I type: rpmbuild -ba > /usr/local/rpmbuild/SPECS/centos-release-cr-ihc.spec > > I get 'file not found' errors, for paths in /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp: > error: File not found: > /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d > error: File not found: > /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d/Ce > ntOS-cr.repo RPM build errors: > File not found: > /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d > File not found: > /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d/Ce > ntOS-cr.repo > > All i did was to: > 1) put a tarball in SOURCES, > 2) put a spec file in SPECS, > 3) rpmbuild -ba my spec file > > Did I miss a step? If not, here's the contents of my tarball and spec > file: > > The tarball in SOURCES is named: centos-release-cr-ihc-1.tar.gz > the contents of which are: > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:40:01 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:39:57 > centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 > 15:40:39 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/yum.repos.d/ -rw-r--r-- root/root > 523 2011-09-09 15:35:59 > centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo > > my spec file is /usr/local/rpmbuild/SPECS/centos-release-cr-ihc.spec > the contents of which are: > Summary: Package to set up IHC use of the centos-cr repository > Name: centos-release-cr-ihc > Version: 1 > Release: 1 > Source0: centos-release-cr-ihc-1.tar.gz > License: GPL > Group: IHC-config > BuildArch: noarch > BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot > %description > Package to set up IHC use of the centos-cr repository > %prep > %setup -q > %build > %install > install -m 0755 -d /etc/yum.repos.d > install -m 0755 etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo %clean > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > %post > echo " " > echo "Yay IHC IS Team!" > %files > %dir /etc/yum.repos.d > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo > > Thanks, > > Jon
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