Program to produce spec files

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> > Thanks again, Paul. Let us try now fedora-newrpmspec. How should I use
>> > it to get the spec file?
>>
>> fedora-newrpmspec packagename
> 
> You mean
> 
> fedora-newrpmspec videotrans-1.5.1.tar.bz2
> 
> or only
> 
> fedora-newrpmspec videotrans-1.5.1

I mean:

fedora-newrpmspec videotrans

This will generate videotrans.spec, which will contain *no* 
videotrans-specific information other than the package name. You need to 
fill that in yourself. You really need to read some of the rpm-building 
guides, such as:

http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF

And be sure to build your packages as a regular user rather than as root:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/CreateRPMBuildEnvironment

Paul.