convert tar.gz to RPM

[Mark Haney]

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:43 -0500, Mark Haney 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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>Tarballs are source packages, .rpm are binary ones.
>You need to compile then.
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I know the detailed way, but the notes I saw were a little more distilled. 

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