Hi James Thanks for your reply.. yes rpmbuild is working..:) Now trying to create my special SPEC file I have done it as noarch and I have removed all, build, prep, install and clean sections and have only %file..Now I have following questions. 1 - When binary .rpm file id created.. does it contains all the files defined in %file section? 2 - %file lists the files to be packaged 3 - I assume I don't need to have %install to install files as %file section does the installation process. 4 - How do I define the directories in which the packaged files have to be installed... in the target machine.. I need to know this very urgently and I will appreciate your quick response Best Regards Ali ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Olin Oden" <joden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:23 AM Subject: Re: Using rpm as installer > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, AliN wrote: > > > Thanks James.. > > > > Yes We need to use rpm for version checking and upgrading the software on > > the client machine. > > We want to make sure that every time the software is upgraded those > > configuration file with important data are not overwritten... > > Just to send .rpm file with zipped executable and config files to the > > client, so the client can install it safely without worrying about clients > > mistake... > > Anyway this my may manager's idea ...:) > > > > One important question I have is about building the .rpm file.. > > RPM documents tell me that the command for building is > > > > e.g. rpm -ba myfile.spec > > > Use rpmbuild instead of rpm. > > Cheers...james > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
