[REQ] Allow `make install` in build step to place artifacts

[cpuguy83]

What kind of request is this?

Improvement of existing experience

What is your request or suggestion?

This is a common way to install artifacts where usually something like a PREFIX var is set to the base directory that things should be installed to.

The reason we list out every single file right now in artifacts is because of the requirement to list files in the %files directive in the rpm spec.
So, we'd still need something to register files for this.

Being able to just use make install would simplify a lot of builds since it follows other packaging strategies.

Are you willing to submit PRs to contribute to this feature request?

• Yes, I am willing to implement it.

[adamperlin]

This definitely sounds useful, especially for projects which install a lot of artifacts. How exactly would this work with registering the files so that they can be listed properly in the RPM spec?

[cpuguy83]

This definitely sounds useful, especially for projects which install a lot of artifacts. How exactly would this work with registering the files so that they can be listed properly in the RPM spec?

Great question.
In the RPM spec we list files based on where they are after install.
e.g. %{_includedir}/some_file.h.
Maybe we don't even need to abstract that, we can have people explicitly set those entries.

Something like:

artifacts:
  rpm:
    files: |
      %{_includedir}/some_file.h

Just a thought there.
It's too bad this has to be provided up front (or at all...).