Re: Building my own RPM - Can it be done?

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:28:15 -0000
"Angel Gabriel" <badmangabriel lycos co uk> wrote:

> If I have created, or install an app from source, and I want to create
> an RPM from it.. is that possible?

There are tools I've seen that claim to do that (seen them on
Freshmeat). I don't know how well they work.

I use checkinstall for similar things. It won't go find the files you
installed a few days ago and make a package from them. But, if you
compile a program from a tarball, you can use checkinstall at the end to
make a package out of it:

./configure
make
make install    <---can be possibly eliminated; I use it anyway
checkinstall

I find it regularly on Freshmeat.

You could build things all over again and run it to create a package
that's already installed.

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