On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Chris Jones wrote: > > Hello; > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:02:13PM -0000, AliN wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new in Linux and rpm so I need a big help. > > > > I want to use rpm as just a software installer... > > > > I have a binary executable with some configuration files which executable > > program needs when running... > > Write a .spec file. > Build the rpm. > > A good start can be found on the rpm.org website: > > http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/ > > All you have to do is not include the configure, prep, build > etc.. parts and just make sure it packages up everything. > > If you aren't going to be doing this I don't see why you > save yourself some trouble and just tar up the binaries. > Because he still gets dependency checking and files that are tracked via the rpmdb so he can run "rpm -V hispkg" on the installed system, and things like that. There are two things rpm does pretty well: - reproducible builds - configuration management of systems. He only wants the second. Cheers...james > Your call though. > > -=cj > > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
