Help; newbie to RPM and troubles with tar!

[Edward Avis <epa98 doc ic ac uk>]

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I think you are doing things the wrong way round.  Having an RPM which
does nothing except call tar in one of its scripts is pointless.  It
loses most of the advantages of RPM - such as rpm --verify to check the
package is still installed correctly, rpm -qf to find which package a
file belongs to, rpm -ql to list the files in a package and so on.

Instead, you should make a more conventional RPM package with the
necessary files included in the payload.  You can do this from the
tarball - just make a 'source package' that untars into a temporary
directory and packages that.

- -- 
Ed Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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