Re: Is there any way of creating a simple install rpm with no source?

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

This is not too hard at all. The steps I user are:

1. create a tarball containing the binaries you want to distribute
2. take a standard (simple, straightforward) .spec file
3. remove everything from the %build section
4. remove everything from the %install section and replace it with a
series of 'install' commands that take the files from your tarball and
put them into the correct place under your %{buildroot}.

Hope that helps a bit. I don't have an example handy, unfortunately.

Cheers
JP

Pep wrote:

>I want to create a rpm from our software for easier installing in our server 
>farm.
>
>All the examples I can find all expect me to have a source tar ball that I 
>want rpm to create a source and binary rpm from, which is not what I want to 
>do :(
>
>All I want to do is simply create a rpm that will package the binaries that 
>are already built not do the complete build for me.
>
>Can this be done, if so can someone please point me at a good example so that 
>I can follow it?
>
>TIA,
>Pep.
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