Yes, I do it that way all the time. You need to create what I call a staging directory E.g. /home/me/work/stage/opt/software/ Set your BuildRoot in the Spec file to the stageing directory: BuildRoot: /home/me/work/stage/ Place your files in the staging directory (which in this example are going to be place at base directory of /opt/software ) SO you will end up with under the BuildRoot staging directory like this /opt/software/bin/files /opt/software/config/files /opt/software/lib Make sure you set your attributes to in the %file section or you will end up with root (or what ever installer is called) as the owner and the default system permissions on the files. Run rpmbuild -bb myspec.spec (where myspec.spec is YOUR spec file) and it should build. I may have skipped a critical step or too so look at the online build references. Reference: MaxRPM book on line at rpm.org at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ and also the online Redhat RPM guide at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ both theses books cover a chunk of basic of what you want to do much better then I just did. Michael A. Duran -----Original Message----- From: Pep [mailto:pep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:28 AM To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Is there any way of creating a simple install rpm with no source? I want to create a rpm from our software for easier installing in our server farm. All the examples I can find all expect me to have a source tar ball that I want rpm to create a source and binary rpm from, which is not what I want to do :( All I want to do is simply create a rpm that will package the binaries that are already built not do the complete build for me. Can this be done, if so can someone please point me at a good example so that I can follow it? TIA, Pep. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
