Building an RPM w/o specifying source

[Erik Williamson <erik cpsc ucalgary ca>]

Hi -

This'll be easy I'm sure.  I want to build an rpm of preexisting 
binaries and manpages, without specifying or including the source ( 
which I don't have ).  Basically, it's a glorified tarball.   Anyways, 
when doing a 'rpm -ba <myspecfile>' rpm complains about the 'Source:' line.

Which is understandable - because I haven't included any source, nor do 
I want to compile anything.  I saw that there's a --tarbuild option in 
the man pages, but there's no explanation of it, and rpm ( 4.0.2-7 ) 
complains about it being an unknown option.

Any ideas?  Should I suck it up and go with a tarball anyhow?

Thanks,
Erik.

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e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
 system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary