[nylug-talk] Anyone know how to build an RPM that isn't from a tarball?

[Steven Lembark]

Last time I looked at this (mid 90's) it was
simple. Today it's complicated.

That "progress"


I have a single piece of content that belongs
in, say, /etc/foo/release. The RPM will have
a bunch of Reauired/Prereq entries for things
that have to come along with that release.

The install is simply:

     %install
     [ -d %{install_dir} ] || mkdir -p %{install_dir};
     echo %{version} > %{install_file};

Now I'm having problems becuse there is no
Source0. This is true: there is no source
file.

If I side-step this issue by echoing the
version into %{_topdir}/SOURCES/release-file
then rpmbuild blows up telling me that the
release file doesn't look like a tarball!!!

Is there any way to make the current versions
of rpmbuild generate a source-less RPM with
nothing but a spec file or at least take an
empty (or simple text line) path and not try
to unzip or untar it?

thanx

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