On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:13, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > > This is probably the wrong place to ask, hopefully someone > can point me to the right place. > > I am new to making RPMs. I've read over the "maximum RPM" guide > and don't understand how (or if possible) to do a simple binary-only > RPM. The guide seems to imply that you must do a build in order to > create an RPM. Our build process is not fully developed. Some of it is > done by hand. Also, this is proprietary software to run on our servers > at client locations, so we don't want to include source. when you rpmbuild -ba, you create a name-version-arch.rpm cointaining only binaries and a name-version.src.rpm containing only source and spec > What I want to do is take the compiled binaries (and a few config/data > files) and make a binary installation RPM. Scripting the whole build > process in order to build an RPM seems like overkill for what I'm > trying to do. is it really harder to write a Makefile than a spec file? > Is there an easy way to just package files and tell RPM where to > put them on install? maybe you can make rpmbuild do only the already scripted part od build process, then stop; then you complete the build/install/whatever inside the rpm build root; then you restart rpmbuild to complete the packaging. Maybe --short-circuit will be your friend. Anyway I feel this is harder than an average Makefile w/ "all:" and "install:" entries... good luck Piero -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
