> We are currently using Sun Solaris Packaging to deliver to our > customer. We will be transitioning to x86 red hat linux and I am > investigating RPM. Currently we use clearcase and we produce derived > objects (mostly exe and libs) and data files for delivery and > installation. In much of the material I have seen about RPM there is > a %build portion in the package. We will not need to build on the > receiving system only install. Does anyone have an example of an rpm > that only does the installation part of the process? Also are there > other packaging tools for linux even if they involve cost? I will > need to do a small trade study. The %build and %install portion of the spec for building an RPM are just for the building of the RPM, and only occurs when the RPM is built. For a compiled application in the %build section you would run your configure and make bits, and then in the %install section you could run make install and do any further manipulations to place the files as necessary. For a web application you could have nothing in the %build section, and use the %install section to place all the files as necessary. There are several useful resources that would be good reading to get started: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Wednesday_130pm_Tom_Callaway_OSS.pdf http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/summit/pwaterman_130_rpm-ifying.pdf And then very good ones once you delve further: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/RPMMacros https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Packaging_Tricks There are other packaging methods (I think InstallAnywhere does some horrible dark voodoo) but if you are using Red Hat you are best off learning RPM. -greg _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
