Re: Building an RPM w/o specifying source

[Gardner Jonathan <fr2asbury yahoo com>]

--- Erik Williamson <erik@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> 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.
> 

I know this doesn't answer the main point of your
question, but since there's no source involved, why
don't you use -bb instead? I mean what's the point of
a .src.rpm  with no source?

Jonathan


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