registering non-rpm programs?

[Harry Hoffman]

why not just make rpms out of them? It's fairly easy to do.

--Harry

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 01:05 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:53:26AM +0100, Alexander Dalloz 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?
>>>
>>>http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/