How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

Fri Aug 18 22:06:37 UTC 2006

Kyle Hamar wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that I read in a Fedora book once about a utility that
>> would create an RPM from a sourceball.
> 
> Look for "rpmbuild --rebuild" which should do what you want.
> 
I thought --rebuild and --recompile only worked on source RPMs... I
think the OP was asking about non-RPM sources.

Mikkel
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