Anonymouslemming
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Adding a helper file to an RPM
Hi all,
I am trying to create an RPM for the Emulex 2.01g drivers for our kernel. The base RPM works fine, but I am now trying to include a helper script in the RPM. This script lives outside the driver source, as I wan't to preserve the emulex tarball.
I tried including
Source: updateinitrd.sh
in my spec file, but it died because it tries to unpack all source files during the RPM creation.
I then tried just adding the file where I do the other installs, but instead of doing
install -m $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/blah
I did
install -m /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/up
This works fine, and the file then appears in my binary RPM and is installed at installation time.
The problem I have is that the file is _NOT_ included in the resulting source RPM, so rebuilding the source RPM means finding this file and manually copying it into place.
Can anyone advise a solution for this ?
I am trying to create an RPM for the Emulex 2.01g drivers for our kernel. The base RPM works fine, but I am now trying to include a helper script in the RPM. This script lives outside the driver source, as I wan't to preserve the emulex tarball.
I tried including
Source: updateinitrd.sh
in my spec file, but it died because it tries to unpack all source files during the RPM creation.
I then tried just adding the file where I do the other installs, but instead of doing
install -m $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/blah
I did
install -m /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/up
This works fine, and the file then appears in my binary RPM and is installed at installation time.
The problem I have is that the file is _NOT_ included in the resulting source RPM, so rebuilding the source RPM means finding this file and manually copying it into place.
Can anyone advise a solution for this ?
ASKER
As I said in my question, if I include updateinitrd.sh as a Source statement in the SPEC file, it tries to untar it, so it fails with an error.
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For instance:
...
Source0: <baseurl>/%{name}-%{versio
Source1: updateinitrd.sh
...
Later down in %install you should have something like this
...
install -m %{SOURCE1} /usr/local/bin
Now, when you build the sources it should get included inside the srpm as well. At least that's the theory. It's been a while since I did something like that ;)