convert tar.gz to RPM

[Mark Haney]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:59 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
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>>Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
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>>>>>>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?
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>>>>>The detailed way:
>>>>>http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html
>>>>>http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html
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>>>>I know the detailed way, but the notes I saw were a little more distilled. 
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>>>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...
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>>NOt so much doing the work for me as starting me off a little further 
>>down the ladder.
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>Perhaps you're thinking of "checkinstall"?
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>Paul.
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Yep that's it.  That finally clicked it for me.  Thanks.

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