convert tar.gz to RPM
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 11 22:19:09 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:59 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
>
> >>>>There was a post on here a few days ago (and I've searched the archives
> >>>>for it and can't find it about the steps needed to convert a tarball to
> >>>>an RPM (or SRPM). Can someone point me to the archive or get me moving
> >>>>in the right direction?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>The detailed way:
> >>>http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html
> >>>http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> >>I know the detailed way, but the notes I saw were a little more distilled.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I dont know about those.
> >But If you're talking about a tool blindly doing the work for you, I
> >dont think it would be a good idea to use them...
> >
> >
> NOt so much doing the work for me as starting me off a little further
> down the ladder.
Perhaps you're thinking of "checkinstall"?
Paul.
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