Re: building rpm from tar.gz od bz2 - solved

From: Michal Zeravik (michalz_at_olomouc.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Oh my god, checkinstall is absolutely amazing.
    It does do exactly what I want, yammi.
    Thank you a lot, Fred

    michalz

    Fred wrote:

    If you don't have a .spec file, then the easiest way to do what you want is to use a program like
    CheckInstall. See:

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

    Lucas Brasilino wrote:

    > Hi
    >
    >>
    >> I red in rpmbuild manual It's possible to build
    >> binary package from tar archive.
    >> All I need is to pass right arguments to ./configure script,
    >> make and build rpm package.
    >> Does exist any simple way to do it without spec file?
    >> For example build rpm after make.
    >>
    >
    > AFAIK, nopz. Remember that rpm package ships a lot
    > of information besides binaries, like license, vendor,
    > packager, changelog, etc.. etc.. etc..
    >
    >
    > 

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