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List:       rpmorg-list
Subject:    Re: building an RPM from just binaries
From:       Toralf Lund <toralf () procaptura ! com>
Date:       2005-02-07 15:42:15
Message-ID: 42078C57.9080601 () procaptura ! com
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Bart Whiteley wrote:

>On Thursday 03 February 2005 2:29 pm, V. Buijtendijk wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey,
>>I'm a beginner at RPM so please be gentle ;)
>>
>>I have some binary files for multiple architectures. I would like to pack
>>these in an RPM installer file. It should basically detect the current
>>architecture and copy these files to the correct location. Maybe in the
>>future I will need to add dependencies.
>>What is the easiest way to do this?
>>
>>For your information, I don't have the sources of these binaries.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Just list the binaries as sources, either individually or tar them up. 
>
>Then untar the binaries in the %prep section, skip the %build section, 
>copy the binaries to $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in the %install section, 
>and list them in the %files section.  Do whatever you need to in 
>the pre/post scripts.  
>  
>
Yep.

Also note that

https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2005-February/msg00005.html

answers what's essentially the same question.

>You should only do this if you really don't have the sources.  If you
>do have the sources, there are a lot of advantages to doing things
>the "right" way. 
>  
>




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