2008/1/9, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>:
> But I do ask the question:
>      What use is rpm as a LSB "standard" format if everything in
> rpmbuild needs disabling?
>      Isn't cpio or tar or ... a better choice than a lobotomized
> rpmbuild?

Good question. Another fact is that they don't actually use rpmbuild
for building packages (only for packaging already-built ones). They
use the abandoned-upstream "nALFS" tool for the actual build, and
their spec files look like this:

Summary: A text-based Web browser.
Name: lsb-lynx
Version: 2.8.6
Release: 1.lsb3
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Packager: Appbat Team <lsb-appbat@linux-foundation.org>
License: GPL
Group: Appbat/browsers
Buildroot: %{pkgroot}/%{name}
AutoReqProv: no
PreReq: lsb >= 3.2

%description
LSB conforming version of lynx. Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx
is added to the LSB Application Battery primarly to demonstrate the use
of the ncurses library.

%pre

%install

%post

%preun

%postun

%clean

%files

%attr ( -   bin bin ) /opt/lsb/appbat


-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov