I need to create a rpm which install's JRE and PostgreSQL in Redhat linux. only thing i know is i need to create a .spec file and need to mention the instruction to do this. I could do manually by installing each rpm in the linux machine , but i need to bundle this together, so that i install the rpm which inturn installs both JRE and PostGreSQL. I am new to this rpm creation. Any pointers on how to do this?
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what it seems that you want to do is called a "metapackage". so your package actually contains nothing, but pulls down the Postgresql and JRE from the repos.
you need to make a spec files which will have for the
Requires: line
Requires: <package1> <package2>
the JRE and PostgreSQL (I don't have a rh machine in front of me so I don't know the actual names), then build like this
rpmbuild -ba SPECS/metatest.spec
see here for more details http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-make-rpms-with-dependencies-meta-packages-720481/
Jeff Crowell
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by specifying Requires, does it install the packages
specified in .spc file? -
it means that the packages are required. they will be pulled from the repo "automagically" – Jeff Crowell Nov 15 '12 at 23:26