In regard to: building packages from binaries, Anshuman Kanwar said (at...: >I am trying to build packages from a tree of precompiled binaries. I just >want to plunk down the binaries in a known location and generate some >configuration using rpm. I don't need to compile source and hence do not >need the src.rpm package. Does anyone have instructions on how to do this ? As Liguo Song suggested, this is very easy to do. This type of question has been asked and answered several times on the RPM list, but I'm not sure how searchable the list is. In any case, if the binaries are already in place, in the layout you would like on the system where you do packaging, then you just need to create a spec file with the preamble that has the basics like Name:, Version:, Release:, etc., and a %description section that describes your package. You may or may not need to list at least one "Source:", if so try something like: Source: /tmp/NO-SOURCE-NEEDED and then run touch /tmp/NO-SOURCE-NEEDED before you create your package. Source: may not even be needed, in which case it should be left out of your spec file. The next four parts of the spec file, which are generally the "hard parts", will be trivial for you: %prep # Nothing to prepare, we're packaging prebuilt binaries exit 0 %build # Nothing to build, the binaries already exist exit 0 %install # Nothing to install, the binaries are already arranged as we would like # them. exit 0 %clean # Nothing to clean, as we didn't prep or build anything. exit 0 All that's left for you to do is create a `%files' section that lists what files are in the package, and run rpmbuild -bb yourspec Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
