How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

[Brian Chadwick]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 00:47 +0930, Tim wrote:
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>> Heikki Pesonen wrote:
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>>> I will appreciate some good book about Fedora Core 5.
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>> I'd be very surprised to see one, for various reasons:
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>> It's *fairly* new, and books take a while to write and publish,
>> particularly in-depth ones.  It's soon to be outdated by FC6, so any
>> book will already be seriously out of date in short order.  And even
>> without major distribution changes, individual packages change over
>> time.  Most Linux books that I've looked at seem to be based on an old
>> version of Linux, with some customisations for the current versions.
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>> Having said that, any good book that lets you know the Unix-way of
>> things, particularly the things that people assume you ought to already
>> know, is going to be helpful.  If you have a good grounding in the
>> basics, you ought to be able to work out the specifics. 
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> The founder of RedHat, Bob Young, has a project that enables the
> printing of books on the fly, on demand. 
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>> http://www.lulu.com
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> Pretty nifty deal for budding authors and for cases like this when there
> is a short lifespan of a reference material. You just upload your text
> in the format / size you want it printed in, sell the books, give the
> order to lulu who will then print it, ship it, collect the money and
> give you the profit. Of course, one book costs more than a thousand.
> But, you control when and how the order is placed to get a quantity of
> orders placed at once. It's a win/win. Ric  
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rpmbuild -ta tarball