Re: Creating a dummy RPM

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:22 PM, James Colannino wrote:

> Hi everyone.  I've been googling around, but haven't found a good  
> answer to this problem yet.  I'm looking to create a dummy RPM  
> whose purpose on the system is really nothing more than to be  
> installed and to show up in RPM queries (I don't want it to  
> actually install any files.)
>
> How exactly should I go about this?  I've played around with  
> creating a spec file, but so far I haven't gotten anything to  
> work.  Thanks :)

Summary: A dummy package.
Name: dummy
Version: 1.2
Release: 3
License: public domain
Group: System Environment/Base
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
BuildArchitectures: noarch

%description
A dummy package.

%files