Re: ... binary RPM question ...

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:28:38AM -0700, Leland Ray wrote:

> If you are not using %prep (as itself, or as %setup),
> the Source: tags only exist to tell rpmbuild what to
> use when constructing a .src.rpm.
> 
> So the simple answer to the question is that there are
> no source files in the case of constructing a binary
> rpm; you already have the binaries, and the previous
> build system gives you the layout.

Building a binary RPM without a source RPM (in this case meaning an
RPM containing a tarball with binaries) is in general a bad idea,
as rebuilding the (binary) RPM is not posisble then.

Using files from outside the SOURCES directory is just "not done"
when building RPMs and that what's happening here.

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