Is it possible to build an rpm package without making a tar.gz archive?

Question

For me making a tar.gz archive is excess, because i export source code from svn. Perhaps it is possible to make rpm archive without automatic unpacking of archive? (Perhaps it is possible just to copy files from source folder to build or something like this)?

Answer 1

There isn't a whole ton of documentation on this, but yea you can just list the file if you want to. Here is a great discussion on doing this, as well as proper usage straight from Fedora.