Re: building packages from binaries

[Liguo Song <liguo song vanderbilt edu>]

IMHO, the src is not necessary. You just need to prepare a spec file
which will put the binaries into the right place under %{buildroot} in
the build section.

Then rpmbuild -bb name.spec will get your the binary package.

One more point, if the installation is OS dependent, it is better to
prepare the src package just as the other post suggested.

Good luck.


Liguo (Leo)



On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:11, Anshuman Kanwar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am trying to build packages from a tree of precompiled binaries. I just
> > want to plunk down the binaries in a known location and generate some
> > configuration using rpm. I don't need to compile source and hence do not
> > need the src.rpm package. Does anyone have instructions on how to do this ?
> 
> You do need a source rpm; in this case the binaries are your sources and
> you just need to install them in the correct location.
> 
> Create a src.rpm package where the %prep and %build phases do almost
> nothing (I think you might need %prep to move the binaries into the
> build directory. Experiment with that) and the %install phase puts the
> binaries into the correct location under the RPM_BUILD_ROOT tree, just
> like a normal %install would do for a source rpm. Then package them up
> as normal in the %files section.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
> 
> 
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