How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Aly Dharshi]

Wouldn't it be a rpmbuild -ta source_tarball but it should have spec 
file in the tarball I believe, could be wrong.

Aly.

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Kyle Hamar wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> I thought --rebuild and --recompile only worked on source RPMs... I
> think the OP was asking about non-RPM sources.
> 
> Mikkel

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