RPM Building!

[doofusmcpaddleboat]

Hey folks,

We currently operate several different tomcat instances to run our applications. Our current method of deploying new versions is via manual copy/paste and file transfers between development environment and production. I'd like to setup our deployments with single RPM packages. Having read the RPM guides, I see there are lots of building of packages, which we don't need. We simply want to be able to extract a fully built directory structure to it's appropriate location, preceded by making a backup copy of the data that's already on the server. What's the best way to do this?

[topdog]

Write a script to do it.