Program to produce spec files

[Thomas Cameron]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I am trying to learn how to build a rpm from the tarball without
> checkinstall, and I am wondering whether there is already a program to
> produce a tentative spec file to be afterwards changed and corrected
> by the packager. Maybe a program like the one that I describe here
> would increase the productivity of packager. Is there such a program?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 

Many times I just use the template at http://www.rpm.org/howto/thefight/ 
and go from there.  It has worked for pretty much every RPM I've ever 
had to build.

To find out what the list of files is, I usually do the standard dance of:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install DESTDIR /var/tmp/foo

then I do

cd /var/tmp/foo
find . -type f | sed "s/^\.//" >> /path/to/specfile

Go back and move the files into the right section of the spec file you 
are creating and then go to town.

Thomas