Re: preserving file attributes from make install in rpm spec file

"Bob Beers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 13, 2007 11:27 AM, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Bob Beers wrote:
> > Do I understand correctlythat I can
> >  omit the make install line in %install section
> >  if I add appropriate %attr lines in the %file section?
>
> You can't completely omit installing the files into the buildroot -- you'll
> still need to get them there somehow.
>
>

ok, got it.  I made a new target in the Make file: plaininstall, which
 does not try to change ownership.  I also changed .spec to
%install
make DESTDIR=/ plaininstall

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