From the course: Building, Maintaining, and Distributing RPM Packages

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Creating a binary package

Creating a binary package

- [Instructor] A binary package is used to install files into predefined locations on a target computer. Usually these files are executables that are compiled as part of the package creation process. Though they can also be other kinds of files referred to as arbitrary artifacts. And these could be any kind of files that the package creator wants to have installed on the target system. These arbitrary artifacts might be custom assets like fonts, branded desktop backgrounds, or configuration files for common tools. Or they could be custom scripts, templates, libraries, keys, or anything else that needs to be pushed to clients during setup or later. When we build a binary package, we use the spec file to instruct the package creation software what files to put where. When we provide compiled artifacts, we need to make sure that we build them for the processor architecture that our client machines use. In an enterprise…

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