>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Georgeson <Justin> writes:
Justin> This actually leads into a third topic. :) Writing spec
Justin> files. I've been dabbling into this more and more lately. Is
Justin> there a tool that will generate at least a skeleton spec file
Justin> from an autoconf/automake/whateverisincludedinthisclumpoftools
Justin> project? My main problem is determining the file list. I think
Justin> the rest of the stuff I can lift from other spec files I've
Justin> been hacking on.
I like to use checkinstall when I'm installing packages from tarballs:
http://checkinstall.izto.org
Checkinstall does a "make install" (or other install command) to a temp area
and then builds an rpm package which is installed on the system. It's a
great way to keep all your installed software in rpm format.
You could look at the spec file generated by checkinstall, but I just
use it as is.
Another package for creating rpms at the installation step is
make_uninstall. It's a shell script so you can see exactly how it builds
spec files:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/package/make_uninstall-2.0.8.tar.gz
I had to edit the make_uninstall script (mku) to replace "rpm -bb"
with "rpmbuild -bb" to get it to work on RH 8.0.
make_uninstall is a little more flexible (it allows you to add/remove files
in the installation), but checkinstall is a little easier to use.
--
Ron Olsen
ron_olsen@qwest.net
Boulder Colorado
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