I often do binary rpm per packaging proprietary apps – also moster as websphere – on linux.
So my experience could be useful also a you, besides that it would better to do a TRUE RPM if you can. But i digress.
So the a basic step for packaging your (binary) program is as follow – in which i suppose the
program is toybinprog with version 1.0, have a conf to be installed in /etc/toybinprog/toybinprog.conf and have a bin to be installed in /usr/bin called tobinprog :
1. create your rpm build env for RPM < 4.6,4.7
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{RPMS,SRPMS,BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,tmp}
cat <<EOF >~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp
EOF
cd ~/rpmbuild
2. create the tarball of your project
mkdir toybinprog-1.0
mkdir -p toybinprog-1.0/usr/bin
mkdir -p toybinprog-1.0/etc/toybinprog
install -m 755 toybinprog toybinprog-1.0/usr/bin
install -m 644 toybinprog.conf toybinprog-1.0/etc/toybinprog/
tar -zcvf toybinprog-1.0.tar.gz toybinprog-1.0/
3. Copy to the sources dir
cp toybinprog-1.0.tar.gz SOURCES/
cat <<EOF > SPECS/toybinprog.spec
# Don't try fancy stuff like debuginfo, which is useless on binary-only
# packages. Don't strip binary too
# Be sure buildpolicy set to do nothing
%define __spec_install_post %{nil}
%define debug_package %{nil}
%define __os_install_post %{_dbpath}/brp-compress
Summary: A very simple toy bin rpm package
Name: toybinprog
Version: 1.0
Release: 1
License: GPL+
Group: Development/Tools
SOURCE0 : %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
URL: http://toybinprog.company.com/
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
%description
%{summary}
%prep
%setup -q
%build
# Empty section.
%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}
# in builddir
cp -a * %{buildroot}
%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}
%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/%{name}.conf
%{_bindir}/*
%changelog
* Thu Apr 24 2009 Elia Pinto <devzero2000@rpm5.org> 1.0-1
- First Build
EOF
4. build the source and the binary rpm
rpmbuild -ba SPECS/toybinprog.spec
And that’s all.
Hope this help