Question on tarballs and .rpm's...

tarballed · 07-18-2003, 07:07 PM

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

homestead1000 · 07-18-2003, 07:30 PM

I'd start with this:

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

Good luck!

jailbait · 07-18-2003, 11:29 PM

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