How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Brian Chadwick]

Brian Chadwick wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 00:47 +0930, Tim wrote:
>>  
>>> Heikki Pesonen wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I will appreciate some good book about Fedora Core 5.
>>>>       
>>> I'd be very surprised to see one, for various reasons:
>>>
>>> It's *fairly* new, and books take a while to write and publish,
>>> particularly in-depth ones.  It's soon to be outdated by FC6, so any
>>> book will already be seriously out of date in short order.  And even
>>> without major distribution changes, individual packages change over
>>> time.  Most Linux books that I've looked at seem to be based on an old
>>> version of Linux, with some customisations for the current versions.
>>>
>>> Having said that, any good book that lets you know the Unix-way of
>>> things, particularly the things that people assume you ought to already
>>> know, is going to be helpful.  If you have a good grounding in the
>>> basics, you ought to be able to work out the specifics.     
>>
>> The founder of RedHat, Bob Young, has a project that enables the
>> printing of books on the fly, on demand.
>>  
>>> http://www.lulu.com
>>>     
>>
>> Pretty nifty deal for budding authors and for cases like this when there
>> is a short lifespan of a reference material. You just upload your text
>> in the format / size you want it printed in, sell the books, give the
>> order to lulu who will then print it, ship it, collect the money and
>> give you the profit. Of course, one book costs more than a thousand.
>> But, you control when and how the order is placed to get a quantity of
>> orders placed at once. It's a win/win. Ric   
>>
>>   
> rpmbuild -ta tarball
http://genetikayos.com/code/repos/rpm-tutorial/trunk/rpm-tutorial.html