[K12OSN] creating rpm packages from source

[Gavin Chester]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 04:15 -0800, Rob Owens wrote:
> I've read at least 3 different methods of doing this,
> and I'm wondering what most people use.  There is a
> program called "checkinstall" that seems like it might
> work for me.

FWIW: I can vouch for checkinstall being pretty friendly to this newbie
- mind you I never examined the integrity of the rpms it created. I just
used it to remove an application by invoking rpm -e <packagename> after
I had built it from source - and it did that without fuss.    

Regards, Gavin.