Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-11 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 14:07 +0200, Tomasz Napierała wrote: > We'd like to simplify deployment of new blades and I need to package some of > proprietary libs we are using, and obviously I don't have sources for them. > Can anybody point me into good direction how to make packages from binaries? >

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: > Thanks for response. > > On Friday 10 August 2007 14:45:31 James Pearson wrote: >> The 'noarch' rpms normally don't build anything - so they could be a >> good starting point - the crontabs spec file is a simple example - >> although if you are generating platform specifi

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread James Pearson
Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: Thanks for response. On Friday 10 August 2007 14:45:31 James Pearson wrote: The 'noarch' rpms normally don't build anything - so they could be a good starting point - the crontabs spec file is a simple example - although if you are generating platform specific RPMS, you

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread Tomasz Napierała
Thanks for response. On Friday 10 August 2007 14:45:31 James Pearson wrote: > The 'noarch' rpms normally don't build anything - so they could be a > good starting point - the crontabs spec file is a simple example - > although if you are generating platform specific RPMS, you won't want > the 'Bui

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread James Pearson
Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: Hi, We'd like to simplify deployment of new blades and I need to package some of proprietary libs we are using, and obviously I don't have sources for them. Can anybody point me into good direction how to make packages from binaries? I have basic knowledge about buildin

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread Jim Perrin
On 8/10/07, Tomasz Napierała <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > We'd like to simplify deployment of new blades and I need to package some of > proprietary libs we are using, and obviously I don't have sources for them. > Can anybody point me into good direction how to make packages from binaries? I

[CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread Tomasz Napierała
Hi, We'd like to simplify deployment of new blades and I need to package some of proprietary libs we are using, and obviously I don't have sources for them. Can anybody point me into good direction how to make packages from binaries? I have basic knowledge about building rpms, but it seems to be