How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Sat Aug 19 20:21:43 UTC 2006


Greetings Ric ,

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 01:23 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
>> Greetings Aly,

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

I can't argue with that . I myself had several successes and failures 
with the above command although the command is correct as far as the 
manual is concerned . But i don't know what exactly the specifics of the 
rpmbuild process are .



Kostas




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