Re: Binary-only RPMs?

["Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 gmail com>]

It is possible to simply make a tar.gz file containing the files you want to install and then write a spec file that will untar &  copy those into an install directory and make an RPM out of the target directory.   The spec file that people use to re-package the microsoft true type fonts would be an example.  I'm pretty sure I could think of a couple of other examples, but just search for the spec file that goes with 
msttcorefonts.spec.  Google to get that, notice you don't have to do any of the build stuff. Just prep & setup, and then install just copies files. Here's what msttcorefont has--just an ordinary "cd" and "cp" to install files....
%install
[ "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
cd %{name}/fonts
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{fontdir}
cp *.ttf fonts.dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{fontdir}

.....

%files
%attr(-,root,root) %{fontdir}
%dir %{fontdir}

pj

On 1/17/07, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler bleepsoft com > wrote:

My project uses NAnt as a build system, and is primarily Mono-based. Do I necessarily need to use RPM to build the project so I can package it in an RPM?

Ideally I would like to be able to just package up a shadow directory (/usr/local/ansa) and install it via RPM, since my build system is a bit less than standard :)

Ideas? 

Cheers

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler bleepsoft com | jabber: tyler jabber geekisp com

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