RPM build No such file or directory
Solution 1
%install
install -m 0755 -d %{buildroot}/opt/agent
cp -a your_milion_files/* %{buildroot}/opt/agent
%files
/opt/agent
When you specify %dir, it will include just that directory and nothing else. Without %dir pragma, it will include that directory and EVERYTHING within it. So you just to copy those files in that directory in %install section.
Edit:
Let say that some-agent-1.0.tar.gz contains:
agent/binary/agent.sh
agent/data/data1.dat
agent/data/data2.dat
....
agent/data/data1000.dat
agent/LICENSE
then your sections should be:
%install
install -m 0755 -d %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/some-agent
install -m 0755 -d %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/
cp -a binary/agent.sh %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/some-agent
cp -a data/* %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/
%files
%doc LICENSE
%{_bindir}/some-agent
%{_datadir}/some-agent
Instead of the last line you can either use:
%dir %{_datadir}/some-agent
%{_datadir}/some-agent/*
but obviously
%{_datadir}/some-agent
is shorter and have the same meaning.
In that %install section you can use any bash command. So do there what would you normally do on command line. Any shell expansion works so use that to your advance.
I used some macros - you should use them rather then hardcoded path. You can get full list of available macros by
rpm --showrc
And evaluate them by
rpm --eval '%{_datadir}'
which on recent RHEL and Fedoras evaluato to
/usr/share
I also presented little trick with LICENSE file. When it is present in topmost directory of tarfile, then you just pass the name to %doc macro and rpm will place it to correct %docdir automatically.
Solution 2
Look at the log from the build process. First, rpmbuild
changes into the BUILD
directory:
+ cd /home/rcbandit/rpm/BUILD
Then it untars your source tarball:
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/rcbandit/rpm/SOURCES/some_agent-1.0.tar.gz
+ /bin/tar -xf -
Then it attempts to cd
into the some_agent-1.0
directory, which is presumably created by untarring the source archive:
+ cd some_agent-1.0
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RUwFW5: line 38: cd: some_agent-1.0: No such file or directory
This is failing. This suggests that unpacking the archive is not creating the directory RPM is looking for. You would typically solve this using an argument to the %setup
macro. For example, if I have an archive named some_agent-1.0.tar.gz
, and it contains:
an-unexpected-name/
an-unexpected-name/README
I would need to indicate that with the -n
argument to the %setup
macro:
%prep
%setup -q -n an-unexpected-name
user1285928
Updated on August 01, 2020Comments
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user1285928 over 3 years
I want to create simple RPM file with many small files.
[root@laptop rpm]# tree . ├── BUILD ├── BUILDROOT ├── RPMS ├── SOURCES │ └── some_agent-1.0.tar.gz ├── SPECS │ ├── kernel.spec │ └── kernel.spec~ └── SRPMS 6 directories, 3 files [root@laptop rpm]#
I have this spec file:
Summary: some_agent Name: some_agent Version: 1.0 Release: 1 License: Apache Group: application Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot %description Test %prep %setup -q %build %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %files %defattr(-,root,root,-) %doc agent/*
But when I try to build the RPM package I get this error:
[root@laptop ~]$ rpmbuild -bb -v ~/rpm/SPECS/kernel.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RUwFW5 + umask 022 + cd /home/rcbandit/rpm/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + unset DISPLAY + cd /home/rcbandit/rpm/BUILD + rm -rf some_agent-1.0 + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/rcbandit/rpm/SOURCES/some_agent-1.0.tar.gz + /bin/tar -xf - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd some_agent-1.0 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RUwFW5: line 38: cd: some_agent-1.0: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RUwFW5 (%prep) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RUwFW5 (%prep) [root@laptop ~]$ ^C
Do you have any idea where is my mistake?
I copied the source file but for some reason it's not found.
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nos over 8 years@user1285928 If you unpack your some_agent-1.0.tar.gz, what do you get ? rpmbuild will assume it unpacks to a directory named some_agent-1.0, but from the output you show us, that is not the case. So, what's inside your tarball ?
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user1285928 over 8 yearsI have a small progress. I have a directory agent into the tar.gz file which is a parent to many small files. I managed to build the RPM but it's empty. any idea what I'm missing?
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nos over 8 yearsYour .spec files only create an empty directory in $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/agent , you would need to copy the files you want to be installed into there as well, and you probably need to remove the
%dir
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user1285928 over 8 yearsYes but I have 1000+ files into the package. I can't write every file name. Can you give me detailed information what I need to edit?
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nos over 8 yearsPerhaps just do
cp -ap agent/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/agent/
Or instead of doinginstall -m 0755 -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/agent
, just copy the whole directory tree:install -m 0755 -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/
andcp -R agent $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/
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user1285928 over 8 yearsI get cp: cannot stat `agent/*': No such file or directory
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nos over 8 yearsRun
pwd
in your spec file, then you will learn what the current working directory is in the %install section and discover that I made a mistake, and it should just becp -ap * $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/agent/
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user1285928 over 8 yearsI tried to copy whole directory tree using cp -ap * $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/opt/agent/ but I get + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars and the computer hangs. How I can run pwd into the spec file to see the location?
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user1285928 over 8 yearsI don't understand what I have to insert for
your_milion_files/*
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msuchy over 8 yearsIn %prep section you correctly unpacked some-agent-1.0.tar.gz and at the beginning of %install section you are changed into ./agent/ directory, which should be topmost dirctory of your tar. So you basically copy those files to correct location in %{buildroot}. I will try to edit my answer and give specific example.
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Veda almost 6 yearsThanks
%setup -q -n an-unexpected-name
was what I was searching for. -
itsazzad over 2 yearsShould use ${SourceX} instead of %{buildroot}