On 2018-12-17 10:03, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
I'm trying to build an RPM package, from source. I'm following the suggestions of several tutorials online, but I keep getting errors when checking the build.
The exact text of these error messages would probably be useful.
If I'm building it from source, how should I know what files will be installed, and in what directories?
./configure it with --prefix=~/scratch/ , and see what gets put into ~/scratch/ after "make install" finishes. This only works with things that are built with autotools, but just about everything that's not a toy is.
Is the "files" section required or just a courtesy so "rpm -ql" would work?
I believe it's required. I have never written an RPM .spec from scratch though, just inherited and maintained a set of custom spec files for a while.
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