How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Aly Dharshi]

For an example try the apache build I believe it has a .spec file in the 
tarball, that should help you see how it works.

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Aly
> Aly Dharshi wrote:
>>
>>> 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]#
>>
> 
> The above error is printed when the tarball doesn't include a *.spec file .
> 
> 
>> Which is a spec file, to tell the rpmbuild -ta command (and 
>> parameters) how to build the package to an end rpm.
> 
> After several failed attempts i have found that rpmbuild will be 
> successful when the spec file is present and in the root directory of 
> the tarball .
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Kostas
> 

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