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eignhpants
eignhpants

Reputation: 1761

rpmbuild can't find the files I unpack from source

I am building a custom package which for the most part has a couple of dependencies and install my own files and scripts. I have those files in a tar file and after attempting the build I can see those files unpacked in the rpmbuild/BUILD directory. However there seems to be a problem with the %files directive as any file within is listed as error: File not found. The relevant section of my spec file looks like this:

%prep
%setup

%install
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/collectd/
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/bin/
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/bin/collectd.conf.d/
install -m 777 collectd.conf.custom %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/etc/collectd/

# list files owned by the package here
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%config /etc/collectd.conf.custom
%config /etc/collectd.d/http.conf
%config /etc/collectd.d/csv.conf
/usr/local/bin/my-plugin.py
/usr/local/bin/my-script

Like I said these files unpack to /BUILD but the builder fails in the %install directive after it executes the three mkdir statements. I am only trying to install one of the files in the above script so I can more easily tell that it succeeded. I consistently get the following error no matter what I try:

+ install -m 777 collectd.conf.turbine /home/vagrant/rpmbuild/BUILD/my-package-1.1/etc/collectd/
install: cannot stat `collectd.conf.custom': No such file or directory

This file is in this directory as I checked using ls but for some reason I keep getting this error.

EDIT:

My %.spec file is as follows:

Summary: my-package Collectd
Name: my-package-collectd
Version: 1.1
Release: Public
Group: Applications/System
License: Public
Requires: collectd
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}
Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

%prep
%setup

%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/collectd/
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/collectd/collectd.conf.d/
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/bin/

install -m 777  %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/etc/collectd/collectd.conf.custom %{buildroot}/etc/collectd/
install -m 777  %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/etc/collectd/collectd.conf.d/csv.conf %{buildroot}/etc/collectd/collectd.conf.d/
install -m 777  %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/etc/collectd/collectd.conf.d/http.conf %{buildroot}/etc/collectd/collectd.conf.d/

# list files owned by the package here
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%config /etc/collectd.conf.my-package
%config /etc/collectd.d/http.conf
%config /etc/collectd.d/csv.conf
/usr/local/bin/cloudhealth.py
/usr/local/bin/my-package-collectd

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3121

Answers (1)

Etan Reisner
Etan Reisner

Reputation: 80921

The way building an RPM works is that the %prep section (and often just the %setup macro) unpacks any source files into the build directory.

Then the %build section performs any compilation, etc. in the build directory and produces the built/output files.

Then the %install section copies the appropriate files from the build directory into their "final" locations under the %{buildroot}.

Then the %files section paths are matched against the files in the %{buildroot} and packaged into the RPM.

The %install section in your spec file is not doing that correctly.

Upvotes: 2

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