How to: *.tar.gz -> *.rpm ?

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 16:27:22 UTC 2005


On 12/30/05, Strong <s-strong at mail.ru> wrote:
> Is there an algorithm how to make an rpm out of existing source files?
> Say, I can compile the program out of *.tar.gz, but when I would remove
> it - it would be hard to say what to remove as it will be out data
> base. So, is there an easy way to make an rpm out of the tar.gz?! -

Yes. Install checkinstall and then

./configure
make
checkinstall (as root)

Paul




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