Re: RPM | Without Source ?

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:53:05PM +0530, Lis Maria wrote:

> Is it possible to create an rpm without metioning the Source tag?

Yes.

> I mean can i create an empty rpm?.

Yes (but this is in fact unrelated to having a source or not - you could
even compile the whole world and not using any of the files in the
resulting rpm ;-)).

> The requrement was to create an rpm,but it need not install any files but
> perform some actions on some files already present in the target loc.

Yes, this is possible (just include %pre/%post/%trigger sections to
do what you want to do).

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