Re: Building an RPM w/o specifying source

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:13:50AM -0600, Erik Williamson wrote:
> 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.

In this case, the "source" of your package is a bunch of binaries. You've
got to tell RPM where to get those files from somehow.

Of course, if you can find the source, that's always better....

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