Re: building rpm from tar.gz od bz2 - solved

[Michal Zeravik <michalz olomouc com>]

Oh my god, checkinstall is absolutely amazing.
It does do exactly what I want, yammi.
Thank you a lot, Fred

michalz



Fred wrote:

If you don't have a .spec file, then the easiest way to do what you want is to use a program like 
CheckInstall. See:

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/



Lucas Brasilino wrote:

> Hi
>
> > I red in rpmbuild manual It's possible to build
> > binary package from tar archive.
> > All I need is to pass right arguments to ./configure script,
> > make and build rpm package.
> > Does exist any simple way to do it without spec file?
> > For example build rpm after make.
>
>     AFAIK, nopz. Remember that rpm package ships a lot
> of information besides binaries, like license, vendor,
> packager, changelog, etc.. etc.. etc..