Re: Getting access to bin directory in packaging extension

[Danny O'Connor]

Cheers for the reply,

I don't seem to have access to the 'path_to' function in the constructor 
of the task ( undefined method `_' for 
#<Buildr::PackageRPMTask:0x3717ee94> )

I see in your code you've done:

root = File.join("target", "_#{File.basename(name)}")

If you have subprojects will using "target" directly like that work ?

I thought that was the idea of the path_to function,

Thanks again,
Danny.

Antoine Toulme wrote:
You mean you want to use the target directory of the project.

How about _(:target, :rpm)

and then:
_(:target, :rpm, :top_dir)
_(:target, :rpm, :build_root)

See also:

http://github.com/intalio/package_as_deb/blob/master/lib/buildrdeb/package.rb
which implements a different strategy, using the name of the task so that
you can have more than one deb packaging per project:

root = File.join("target", "_#{File.basename(name)}")
mkpath File.join(root, "DEBIAN")


Thanks,

Antoine

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:31, Danny O'Connor <danny.ocon...@propylon.com>wrote:

Hi There,

I'm doing an rpm packaging extension,

I'm running into a problem defining the 'top dir' and 'build dir' for the
rpm, at the moment I have:

module Buildr

 class PackageRPMTask < ArchiveTask

   def initialize(root, path)
     @temp_working_dir = File.join(Dir.tmpdir(), "buildr.#{$$}")
     @rpm_top_dir = "#...@temp_working_dir}/buildr/rpm_top_dir"
     @rpm_build_root = "#...@temp_working_dir}/buildr/rpm_build_root"
     @target = "noarch"
     super
   end

Instead of using a temporary directory though, it might be nicer to use a
folder in the 'bin' directory of the local build workspace.

Does anybody know the best way to get access to it in the task definition ?

I've attached the source of what I have so far, it works at the moment, you
can use it like any other archive packaging format:

package(:rpm).with(:spec => RPM_SPEC_STRING)
package(:rpm).include("etc/myserviceinitd", :as =>
"/etc/init.d/myservicectl") .. etc.


Thanks,
Danny.