If you want to learn how to write a spec file, get a sample from a simple source rpm, like say eject. It's a good simple place to start.. These spec file/rpm generators are rarely going to get you something clean. Another indispensable resource is the Red Hat RPM Guide. It's a pretty good book. James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394 rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/27/2004 01:01:55 PM: > Got a good url for that ? I've been looking of late myself. I found > checkinstall to be a pretty good program, but not quite what I was after > personally. > > Thanks, > TheFinn. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:37 AM > Subject: RE: How to build an RPM? > > > > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 23:59, Cameron, Thomas wrote: > > > I've used checkinstall a couple of times and been really underwhelmed > with it. > > > > > > Are there any other good tools out there for building spec files or > RPMs? > > > I've looked at Rust and checkinstall and they seems to essentially do > the > > > same thing. > > > > What was the problem with checkinstall? > > > > I believe checkinstall aims at allowing you to uninstall or eg. rpm -ql. > > It does probably not aim at writing pretty spec files. (I have not even > > looked at them, or if I have, I have forgotten what they looked like.) > > > > In this sense it has worked for me. > > > > If you maintain a source package I would recommend that you learn to > > write spec files the hard way. It is not that hard. > > > > Regards > > Enrique > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rpm-list mailing list > > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
