How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Aly Dharshi]

> 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]#

Which is a spec file, to tell the rpmbuild -ta command (and parameters) 
how to build the package to an end rpm.

Cheers,

Aly.


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