registering non-rpm programs?

[Brian Richardson]

On 27-Nov-04, at 8:41 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:

> I'm running FC3. I have a couple of programs that are not available as 
> rpms that I had to install from source. I was just wondering if there 
> is a way to register them so that, for example, rpm -q myprogram would 
> give correct results. Does anyone has experience with that?

The only way to do this that I am aware of is to build a .spec file for 
the source package you have, and to build a binary .rpm using rpmbuild.

Brian
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