To Reply to myself - The method I am using with ~/.rpmmacros to stop the "find_requires" and "perl_requires" does not actually work. Apologies for implying it does. Any suggestions on how to do this are much appreciated. Cheers, Fred. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Friedrich Clausen <fred at derf.nl> wrote: > Hello All, > > When I build RPM packages, rpmbuild always scans all the executables, > shared libs, perl scripts, etc. to find out which external libraries > the application depends on. This is normally a Good Thing but I am > currently packaging an in-house, self contained application. > > I could almost use a tarball but an RPM provides better manageability > and also allows post-installation tasks. All shared libraries are > under a single prefix, which is not in the system-wide ld.so.conf - it > is configured in the startup script of the application. However, > rpmbuild finds all these dependencies and adds them to the list of > "Requires", which is not desirable in this case. > > My question therefore is - how can I tell rpmbuild to stop > automatically creating a dependency list? The best I can come up with > at the moment is to add the following to my ~/.rpmmacros (line numbers > added by me): > > [1] %__os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note > [2] %__find_requires /bin/true > [3] %__perl_requires /bin/true > > So: > > [1] - Stop it stripping already stripped binaries. > [2] and [3] - This stops it doing the automatic dependency list creation. > > This seems a bit heavy handed though, is there another, cleaner way to do it? > > Regards, > > Fred. >