Re: RPM from tarballs

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bret Hughes wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 13:15, David van Hoose wrote:
> > Is there a simple way of creating RPM packages from tarballs?
> > I know there isn't for kernels, but about things like Qt, Samba, and
> > possibly KDE.
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> Depends on the tarball.  If the developer included a spec file then yes
> the -t option to rpmbuild does it .

Google for checkinstall.  It's supposed to do a pretty fair job of
constructing RPMs from the "make install" step.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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