Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (354 mails)

[Andrew Wafaa <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nadia Derbey wrote:
> 
> I think this is the thing u did wrong: the BuildRoot is the location
> where everything is installed before the package is actually built. so
> IMHO you shouldn't go there before your install.
> 1) the sources are uncomprssed into the BUILD/<your-package>
> 2) %build is done there
> 3) %install is done there too, with target directory = $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> (which is /var/tmp/your-package>
> 4) %files is done relatively to $RPM_BUILD_ROOT with target drectory =
> RPM/<your-platform>
> 
> Regards,
> Nadia
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Thanks for the tip Nadia,

Most appreciated, I'll try it without going into the BuildRoot.

Regards,

Andy

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