RE: Create RPM from source?

Ben Weatherall said:
> There are several tools you might want to take a look at:
>
> 1) http://freshmeat.net/projects/autospec/
> "Autospec is a program which creates Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) spec
> files automatically from a tarball."

> 2) http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/
> "CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or
> equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those
> files, and adds it to the installed packages database, allowing for easy
> package removal or distribution."

> There was a magazine review of this not too long ago that was very
> favorable. Sorry, I don't remember which magazine.

> 3) http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpmbuilder2/
> "RPMbuilder is a program to help users create RPMs from a source .tar.gz
> package. It helps build a generic RPM spec file. Although this program
> will bail out on nonstandard build methods, it should be good enough for
> most apps."

Ooo! These sound interesting. Thanks for the pointers, Ben. I'll look
at them over the next few days.

Alan



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