about building rpm from using tarball

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri Jan 25 05:30:54 UTC 2008


Only if the tarball contains a spec file.

> rpmbuild should work.
>
> ex: rpmbuild -ta test.tar.gz
>
> -MGS.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: PARIMALA KALAVALA <parimala.kalavala at gmail.com>
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:47:29 PM
> Subject: about building rpm from using tarball
>
> hello,
>
> I have tried building rpm from the tarball(.gz file). But when I build
> using command "rpm -ta rpm tarballname.gz then it throws the error as "
> -ta
> as unknown option".
>
> Also if spec file is available in the tarball, then what are the steps to
> follow to build the rpm and if the spec file is not there then what are
> the
> steps to follow to build the rpm.
>
> pls reply to this query as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks
>
> regards
>
> parimala
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