Dependency only RPM

[Valery Reznic]

--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:

> From: Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>
> Subject: Dependency only RPM
> To: rpm-list at lists.rpm.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 12:36 PM
> I'm trying to make an RPM that does
> nothing apart from require a bunch of other packages. Google
> hasn't enlightened me so far. I tried a spec file with a few
> Requires like this:
> 
> Summary: My App
> Name: my-app
> Version: 0.0.1
> Release: 1
> #Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
> Vendor: My Corporation
> License: GPL
> Requires: httpd >= 2.2.3
> Requires: java-1.6.0-openjdk >= 1.6.0.0
> Requires: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel >= 1.6.0.0
> Requires: postfix >= 2.3.3
> Requires: postgresql >= 8.1
> Requires: postgresql-jdbc >= 8.1
> Requires: postgresql-server >= 8.1
> BuildArch: noarch 
> %description
> My Application
> 
> rpmbuild -bs myapp.spec builds an SRPM successfully - but I
> assume I need to build a binary RPM and rpmbuild -bb doesn't
> produce anything.
Try to append line
%files

to your specfile

Valery.

> 
> Is it possible to build a dependency-only RPM?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Andy Armstrong, Hexten
> 
> 
> 
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