Re: Create RPM from source?

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Create RPM from source?
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 22:56 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> I want to install a program from source but I don't want to bypass my
> package management. I know there was talk about some tool that automates
> the source-compile-build-rpm process but I am not finding it right now.
> Anyone know where such a tool is?

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you mean like rpmbuild ?

rpmbuild -t some_tar_file.tgz (works when there is a spec file in the
tar file)

There is another program - I've forgotten that supplies it's own spec
file but to tell you the truth, I just compile from source and deal with
it...if it's a good package, with decent info in the INSTALL/README or
at least ./config --help I'd rather have the control over the build
than just slapping at it with rpmbuild

Craig

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