convert tar.gz to RPM

[Kenneth Porter]

On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:56 PM +0100 Rakotomandimby Mihamina 
<mihamina.rakotomandimby at etu.univ-orleans.fr> wrote:

> Tarballs are source packages, .rpm are binary ones.
> You need to compile then.

If the tarball contains a single spec file, it can be used like a source 
RPM:

rpmbuild -ta foo.tar.gz

I've also seen a GUI tool for building RPM's that solicits the data 
normally supplied by a spec file:

<http://krpmbuilder.sourceforge.net/>