RPM/Yum database question

[David Curry]

Jack O'Quin wrote:

>Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
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>>Instead of making manual edits to the RPM database (which are likely
>>to be error-prone), I prefer to roll my own RPMs for anything I build
>>locally and then install the RPM. Of course, this requires the
>>knowledge of how to build RPMs, which is quite a big thing to learn.
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>Any pointers on how to get started?
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A url on point was posted on the list a few days ago - 
http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/rpm-build-as-user.html