RPM and tarballs

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Martes, 8 de Mayo de 2007 16:51, Oliver Ruebenacker escribió:
>      Dear friends,
>
>   If you install software directly from a tarball, rpm will not be
> aware of the installation. How can rpm be made aware of it?
>
>   Is rpm --rebuilddb supposed to always fix the problem? What if it does
> not?
>
>   Or should I always try to turn the tarball into an rpm file? How to do
> this?
>

If you wanna build a RPM package from a tarball you have to package it first, 
that's to say, write a spec file and then build it.
Some tar.gz are shipped with a spec file, maybe that's your case...
Hope this helps

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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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