Thank you Hiren and Jos for your opinions. I understand and appreciate where they come from. I am, however, legally bound to not ship our source code, in any form, at any time, to any customer, by any vehicle. The cost to the company, were I to do so, would be in the billions of dollars, and the cost to my own career would be incalculable, to say nothing of my own sense of integrity. Thanks again, -- R -----Original Message----- From: Hiren Patel [mailto:patelhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:55 AM To: RPM Package Manager Subject: Re: ... binary RPM question ... i completely agree so far to Jos's recommendations. do it the proper way from the outset, you will not regret it later. best practices don't exist for nothing. On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:37 +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:28:38AM -0700, Leland Ray wrote: > > > If you are not using %prep (as itself, or as %setup), the Source: > > tags only exist to tell rpmbuild what to use when constructing a > > .src.rpm. > > > > So the simple answer to the question is that there are no source > > files in the case of constructing a binary rpm; you already have the > > binaries, and the previous build system gives you the layout. > > Building a binary RPM without a source RPM (in this case meaning an > RPM containing a tarball with binaries) is in general a bad idea, as > rebuilding the (binary) RPM is not posisble then. > > Using files from outside the SOURCES directory is just "not done" > when building RPMs and that what's happening here. > -- Hiren Patel | Ops Specialist | ISS Infrastructure | Telkom E-Mail: patelhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx Office: +27 12 680 3460 | Fax: +27 12 680 3299 | Cell: +27 73 456 7980 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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
