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If you ever tried to package a simple application with the native rpmbuild, you may know, what a pain it could be.
Writing of a spec file, understand the errors and the different build-stages. Automation and deployment can be simple and without additional overhead.
This way will work like s charm from the first try :-)
To speed up some work processes with a single RPM package will bring more flexibility than deployment of single files/directories across different systems. Also a possibility to upgrade the installations without tracking of file versions over different systems.
This example will describe how to package a example script into a RPM package.
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