Re: Building rpm-s from binaries

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On 8/10/07, Tomasz Napierała <zen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> We'd like to simplify deployment of new blades and I need to package some of
> proprietary libs we are using, and obviously I don't have sources for them.
> Can anybody point me into good direction how to make packages from binaries? I
> have basic knowledge about building rpms, but it seems to be source oriented.

For the most part, you build them the same as you do normal rpms, you
just use a dummy %build section, unless you actually have to work on
the files. Take a look at some of the spec files at
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/  particularly the w32codec, or the
acroread plugin.


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