How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 01:23 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Aly,
> 
> Aly Dharshi wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be a rpmbuild -ta source_tarball 
> 
> Exactly that. The command as you stated is :
> 
> # rpmbuild -ta pine.tar.gz ( That would be pine , the email client ) .
> 
> One note here , though , the Original Poster should be using Fedora Core 
>   2 and above in order for the above command to work , for Fedora Core 1 
> it is done differently ( man rpm would provide the way ).
> 
> but it should have spec  file in the tarball I believe, could be wrong.
> 
> I believe you are not .
> 
> Now as also stated
> 
> # rpmbuild --rebuild would work but on *.src.rpm files only
> 
> And a small addition for the Original Poster :
> 
>   http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/

I guess the rpmbuild process has specifics that it needs within the tarball:

root at wayward4now Desktop]# rpmbuild -ta nxbuilder-2.0.0-23.tar.gz
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)
[root at wayward4now Desktop]#

Ric


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