about building rpm from using tarball

[Scott Ruckh]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PARIMALA KALAVALA" <parimala.kalavala at gmail.com>
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:47 PM
Subject: about building rpm from using tarball


> hello,
>
> I have tried building rpm from the tarball(.gz file). But when I build
> using command "rpm -ta rpm tarballname.gz then it throws the error as 
> " -ta
> as unknown option".
>
> Also if spec file is available in the tarball, then what are the steps to
> follow to build the rpm and if the spec file is not there then what are 
> the
> steps to follow to build the rpm.
>
> pls reply to this query as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks
>
> regards
>
> parimala
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'man rpmbuild'

you might also google '.rpmmacros' too.  I use it to create a user local 
build environment.