problem using rpmbuild

[dsp2267]

Hi, I just got Michael Jang's RHCE book and am working through some procedures in it. I've run

into a snag in the section that talks about creating an rpm package.

Here's what I've done;

- installed rpmdevtools
# yum install rpmdevtools

- created the rpmbuild directory tree;
# cd
# rpmdev-setuptree

- created a "payload" text file;
# vi ./MyPackage-1.0/mypackage.txt
# ls #
/root/MyPackage-1.0/mypackage.txt

- created a tarball;
# tar czf mypackage.tar.gz ./MyPackage-1.0

- moved the tarball into SOURCES;
# cp mypackage.tar.gz ./rpmbuild/SOURCES

- created a template spec file;
# rpmdev-newspec

- modified the spec file
# cp ~/newpackage.spec ./RPMBUILD/specs/mypackage.spec
(see following post for cut-n-paste)

- ran rpmbuild;
# rpmbuild -bs mypackage.spec

this resulted in an rpm file, no complaints that I saw. I copied the rpm file to another

machine running Fedora 14, and was able to "rpm -i" it. However, what it did was to simply load

the tarball into ./rpmbuild/SOURCES. What I wanted it to do was to extract the tarball into the

working directory and untar it. So my spec file is not right.

Next post will contain the spec file...

[dsp2267]

Name: MyPackage
Version: 1.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: just a bunch of crap!

Group: none
License: none
URL: none
Source0: mypackage.tar.gz
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)

#BuildRequires:
#Requires:

%description


%prep
%setup -q


%build
%configure
#make %{?_smp_mflags}


%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
#make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
install -d -m 755 ./MyPackage


%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%doc

[dsp2267]

So, I'm clearly over my head w.r.t. spec files. What I've found online is all oriented towards packages containing source code to be compiled etc, not simply installing a text file to a particular directory.

Can someone get me started on fixing the spec file?

thanx