How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Kyle Hamar]

On 8/18/06, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that I read in a Fedora book once about a utility that
> would create an RPM from a sourceball.

Look for "rpmbuild --rebuild" which should do what you want.

One source of information is here:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-b-command-other-build-commands.html