To Reply to myself -
The method I am using with ~/.rpmmacros to stop the "find_requires"
and "perl_requires" does not actually work. Apologies for implying it
does.
Any suggestions on how to do this are much appreciated.
Cheers,
Fred.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Friedrich Clausen <fred@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> When I build RPM packages, rpmbuild always scans all the executables,
> shared libs, perl scripts, etc. to find out which external libraries
> the application depends on. This is normally a Good Thing but I am
> currently packaging an in-house, self contained application.
>
> I could almost use a tarball but an RPM provides better manageability
> and also allows post-installation tasks. All shared libraries are
> under a single prefix, which is not in the system-wide ld.so.conf - it
> is configured in the startup script of the application. However,
> rpmbuild finds all these dependencies and adds them to the list of
> "Requires", which is not desirable in this case.
>
> My question therefore is - how can I tell rpmbuild to stop
> automatically creating a dependency list? The best I can come up with
> at the moment is to add the following to my ~/.rpmmacros (line numbers
> added by me):
>
> [1] %__os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
> [2] %__find_requires /bin/true
> [3] %__perl_requires /bin/true
>
> So:
>
> [1] - Stop it stripping already stripped binaries.
> [2] and [3] - This stops it doing the automatic dependency list creation.
>
> This seems a bit heavy handed though, is there another, cleaner way to do it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred.
>
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