[lug] Looking for an example spec file

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:02:42 -0600
"Kenneth D. Weinert" <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:

> As I mentioned in an earlier question, I'm looking to create RPMs to 
> make it easier to install on machines here at work.
> 
> I have the situation where I have a shared library and I have two 
> questions about things that I'm not quite understanding, so pointers
> to examples (in the doc, I've been reading Max RPM - but any pointers
> are fine) or an example file would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> First off, when the shared lib is installed, at the moment I have the 
> Makefile creating the links (liba.so.1.0.0 -> liba.so.1.0, etc) but 
> rpmbuild complained about that. Due to the version information I'm
> not sure how I'd go about doing that in the %post actions (presuming
> that's where it would happen) or exactly how to arrange that.

ldconfig should do that for you. 
You should have:

%post -p /sbin/ldconfig

%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig

> The second thing is that I need to have a -devel package to go with
> this shared lib. Since there's only one build section I'm not quite
> sure how to manage that.  Right now in the Makefile I have both an
> install and an install-devel target. This might not be the proper way
> to do this either.

You can install them both in %install, then just setup the files into
the subpackage you want. 

> Any assistance from the more experienced packagers will be greatly 
> appreciated. Pointers/examples/whatever :)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide

Is a good tutorial. ;) 

kevin
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