spec file for rpms

[Tony Placilla]

Tony Placilla <aplacilla at jhu.edu>
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
















>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at  2:03 PM, in message
<200809221403.50389.john at chattanooga.net>, John Aldrich
<john at chattanooga.net>
wrote: 
> On Monday 22 September 2008, David Hláčik wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> i am new at this.
>>
>> I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm
spec
>> file by default so i need to create one.
>>
>> Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools
etc ...
>> ?
>>
> David, I know it's not going to be much help, but there *are* tools
to take 
> a 
> tarball and create an RPM from that. It's very much specific to your

> machine, 
> so it wouldn't help to make it work on another machine, but for the
purposes 
> 
> of keeping your installs clean, etc, it's very useful. Unfortunately
for 
> you, 
> it's been so long since I've done anything, I've long since forgotten
what 
> those utils are, so you'll have to hope someone out there has a
better 
> memory 
> than I! :-)
>

One fairly good one is CheckInstall

it's available from Dag's repo or
http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

yum info checkinstall
   
Available Packages
Name   : checkinstall
Arch   : i386
Version: 1.6.0
Release: 3.el5.rf
Size   : 82 k
Repo   : rpmforge
Summary: CheckInstall installations tracker
Description:
CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your
installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup",
etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system
giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's
standard package management  utilities.