Re: Making an RPM out of a commercial package

I have made the packaging of products commercial  like WebSphere (init,
config and the like) on RHEL4 and Tivoli end-point. For their licences the
source rpm it is of type nosrc and I have disabled the binary stripping of
the binary - mostly java of course - and the production of rpm debug. If it
interests to you I can post the spec of the tivoli end-point. Tell me. I
advice you that most of this product have required a bit of work, but non
problem: websphere  (26000 files  around)  works also within a selinux
apache  - via the websphere plugin, also an rpm of course.

Cheer


On Feb 12, 2008 2:10 AM, soup nazi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a commercial software package that I have to
> make into an RPM. What I have to package up basically
> consists of a license file, a response file, a couple
> of maintenance updates, and a binary installer that
> takes a number of command line flags.
>
> What I would like is for the RPM to unpack all these
> files and run an installation script that kicks off
> the binary installer with all of its command line
> flags. (There is also an uninstaller that I'd like to
> invoke using rpm -e.)
>
> Instead what happens is when I run the rpmbuild
> spec-file command, the software package gets installed
> locally (via the vendor setup). The newly-built RPM
> then contains all of the files that were installed,
> and installing that RPM on another system does not
> invoke the vendor installer.
>
> The problem is that the software needs to get
> installed via the installer, and not just have the
> package exploded onto the system tarball-style, which
> is what I have now. There are client-specific keys
> that are generated at install time that need to be
> unique, for one.
>
> How can I do this with an RPM?
>
> My spec file looks roughly like this:
>
> Summary: ESM
> Name: esm
> Version: 65
> Release: 0
> Group: ABC
> Copyright: Yes
> Packager: Me
> Source: rh-as40-ESM-65-24.tar.gz
> %description
> This is ESM version 6.5
>
> %prep
> %setup
>
> %install
>
> #setup a bunch of vars - snipped for brevity
> ./esmsetup -a -p 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 -d
> /opt/esm -t /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/esm-65/esm.tgz -M
> $ES
> MSRVR -O 5600 -U $ACCESSNAME -W $PASSWORD -N $FQDN  >>
> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
>
> ./esm_lnx-x86.tpk >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1 <$ABTTMP/esm.stdin
>
> ./esmsetup >>$LOG_FILE 2>&1 <$ABTTMP/esm.stdin.update
>
> %post
>
> %files
> /opt/esm
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S69esmrc
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/esmrc
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S69esmrc
>
>
>
>
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