What is the minimum I have to do to create an RPM file?

Question

I just want to create an RPM file to distribute my Linux binary \"foobar\", with only a couple of dependencies. It has a config file, /etc/foobar.conf and should be installe

Answer 1

If you are familiar with Maven there also rpm-maven-plugin which simplifies making RPMs: you have to write only pom.xml which will be then used to build RPM. RPM build environment is created implicitly by the plugin.