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Old 02-16-2005, 04:52 PM   #1
ultramancool
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how to make rpms?

just wondering how i can make my own rpms from tarballs and spec files
I have a working spec file and a tarball
i got stuck here and i don't know what to do :-(

hope you can help
thanks
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Old 02-16-2005, 05:25 PM   #2
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I don't know about spec files, but you can make an rpm from any source that uses make for installing:
http://checkinstall.izto.org
or
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

Unfortunately, both sites seem to be down.

HTH,

Samsara

Edit: Both sites are up again.
Last edited by Samsara; 03-01-2005 at 02:09 PM.
 
Old 02-18-2005, 03:19 PM   #3
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yeah that's a slight problem :-(
 
Old 02-18-2005, 04:56 PM   #4
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Checkinstall does work pretty well for source packages. Try rpm.org for help with spec files & such, there is also a way using rpm to create rpm's from source packages as well, but I forget the syntax at the moment.
 
Old 02-18-2005, 09:09 PM   #5
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Take a look at the how to at rpm.org, I found it very useful when I first started building rpms. It maybe a bit dated, so you may have to look for other sources.
 
  


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