How to use the directory construct in gradle-ospackage-plugin?

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Hi all, I’m using the gradle-ospackage-plugin provided by Netflix (https://github.com/nebula-plugins/gradle-ospackage-plugin).

I want my RPM to create a few empty directory when installed. In an oldfashioned rpm spec I would have done this:

%dir /var/opt/myapp/data

I tried using this:

ospackage {

packageName = ‘foo’

}

buildRpm {

directory(’/var/opt/myapp/data’, 640)

}

And “gradlew buildRpm” does its job fine. When calling 'rpm -q -filesbypkg -p ', I get this, seemingly correct, output:

foo

/var/opt/myapp/data

But, when installing, it fails:

[vagrant@guest1 share]$ sudo rpm -i foo-0.0.1.noarch.rpm

error: unpacking of archive failed on file ./var/opt/myapp/data: cpio: Archive file not in header

I don’t see:

  1. Why it tries to install the directory in “.” rather than the root, and

  2. Why even that fails.

Any hints would be most welcome since the Plugin-Rpm.md file is not very forthcoming on the issue of directories.

2

You’re better off asking the authors of Nebula pluigins - http://nebula-plugins.github.io/ lists https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nebula-plugins as the place where questions can be posted.

3

Thanks! I already tried asking as an Issue on their github page, but got no answer. I was hoping someone else on here had tried that plugin. I will try the Google Group instead.