Re: ... binary RPM question ...

[Hiren Patel <patelhn telkom co za>]

i completely agree so far to Jos's recommendations.
do it the proper way from the outset, you will not regret it later.
best practices don't exist for nothing.

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:37 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> 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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