On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, mark meyer wrote: > 1 - find a Windows package tool that uses a text file to define the > package. Keep that in a packaging directory along with the RPM SPEC > file. > > i do not understand this - are you saying that i can create an rpm > distribution for windows? No. Just that you would keep the Windows package spec and RPM package spec together to keep changes in sync as much as possible. > our application stack is mostly jar and .swf files that are generated from a > large "top level" build (using ant). the final part of the build creates a > large tar (or zip) file that we use distribute. our custom installation > process then just un-archives and lays down the files on the box in the > appropriate locations, then fires several perl scripts that do all sorts of > things. The RPM SPEC file has several sections. The %prep section of your SPEC file extracts the source you are building into a clean directory tree. The %build section has your ant command for the top level build within the clean directory tree. The %install section puts all the runtime files (jar and swf) in proper position in a clean directory tree (usually under /var/tmp/rpm-build/packagename). The rpm has a compressed cpio archive of these install files, plus lots of meta-data for dependencies, changelog, etc. The %post section runs your perl scripts to do final fix up after installing. > understood. as mentioned above - since we more or less own both sides of the > street, we know EVERYTHING there is to know about the composition of the > install archive and the dependencies. Maybe http://www.rpath.com is more what you need. It is basically VCS+RPM for an entire distro. (Roll your own distro.) It is free if all your source is open source, pay if you need to keep some source proprietary. It is a great way to maintain your "router than runs from a CD to make it harder to hack". -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxx> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
