Tony Placilla <aplacilla@xxxxxxx> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:03 PM, in message <200809221403.50389.john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Aldrich <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2008, David Hláčik wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> i am new at this. >> >> I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm spec >> file by default so i need to create one. >> >> Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools etc ... >> ? >> > David, I know it's not going to be much help, but there *are* tools to take > a > tarball and create an RPM from that. It's very much specific to your > machine, > so it wouldn't help to make it work on another machine, but for the purposes > > of keeping your installs clean, etc, it's very useful. Unfortunately for > you, > it's been so long since I've done anything, I've long since forgotten what > those utils are, so you'll have to hope someone out there has a better > memory > than I! :-) > One fairly good one is CheckInstall it's available from Dag's repo or http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ yum info checkinstall Available Packages Name : checkinstall Arch : i386 Version: 1.6.0 Release: 3.el5.rf Size : 82 k Repo : rpmforge Summary: CheckInstall installations tracker Description: CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
