Question on tarballs and .rpm's...
 

Just a quick question regarding tarballs and rpm's.

I personally prefer to install software from the tarballs. However, every once in awhile I dont mind using a rpm. But, the rpms tend to be way behind in versions from the latest release.

So I was curious how one could actually make a rpm from the source tarball.

Is anyone familiar with how to do this?

I'm trying to make my own RPM for the latest version of postfix.

Thanks

Tarballed

I'd start with this:

http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/dev_creating_rpms.php

Good luck!

checkinstall
 

I use checkinstall on a regular basis to make rpms out of tarballs.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php

The procedure is:

./configure
make
checkinstall