RPMbuild behaviour on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Issue

  • I'm trying to use a simple spec file that I used in RHEL5 which only grabs some files and packages them into an RPM.
  • When I try to build on RHEL6 it forces me to create all the whole build tree structure.
  • The spec file I'm using has a %files section with the files I want, but no %prep, %build, %install or any other section besides package description. BuildRoot is set to /tmp.
  • I get this:
    RPM build errors:
        File not found by glob: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/package/files/full/path/*
        File not found: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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