convert tar.gz to RPM

[Paul Howarth]

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.