Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:14:45PM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> >> I have built software on unix/Linuix many times, but now I want to
> >> move two packages that I have built on one machine to another (both
> >> CentOS4.2), and the time seems ripe to discover how to use rpm.
> >> The packages are subversion-1.3.0 and swig-1.3.28. How do I turn
> >> the the results of the build process into rpms?
> >>
> James,
> you are opening a whole can of worms here. RPM package building
> is not to the faint of heart. At least if you plan to do it right.
>
To be sure, but it doesn't hurt to one's feet wet either. Chkinstall is
a cheap and easy first step for creating rpm's out of tarball packages.
> I would suggest you start at www.rpm.org. There are tutorials
> there. After you've got a feeling on how it works, you should get
> a few SRPMS from the CentOS repository, and see if you can understand
> them (the specfiles). It will also give you a feel on the particularities
> of rpm packages for CentOS (trust me, it will change at lot from on
> distro to another).
>
The last time I looked www.rpm.org it appeared not to have been updated
in awhile. Additionally, there is a rpm builder's list at RedHat's
site that was quite active and might yield some results on a search of
the archives
