convert tar.gz to RPM

Wed Jan 11 20:56:29 UTC 2006

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:43 -0500, Mark Haney 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

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

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