Greetings. In article <1102031248l.4273l.0l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 12/02/2004 04:10:41 AM, Tristan Miller wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I have created a few dozen RPMs with the checkinstall utility >> <http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/>. > > Neat utility but it is better to make an actual rpm using a spec file I was looking for an easy way to keep track of third-party programs installed from source, and I had assumed that writing a spec file was more work than just typing "./configure --prefix=/usr;make;su -c checkinstall". Perhaps I was wrong, but the official-looking documentation at <http://www.rpm.org/howto/thefight/> seems very long and not very professionally written. > And the big one - small changes just involves modifying the spec file, > you don't have to go through the entire process again of choosing your > configure options, possibly patching the source, etc. This I grant you, in light of the problem in my original post. So I'm willing to learn how to create a spec file. > There are plenty of tutorials for free on the web for how to write a > spec file, Any in particular you can recommend, apart from <http://www.rpm.org/howto/thefight/>? > Oh - and as far as writing spec files, emacs has a plugin (installed by > default on Fedora) that makes writing a spec file easier - > > emacs package.spec > > It will create a template spec file for the package, really nice. Neato... I had no idea this existed. Looks very pretty with the syntax highlighting and all. :) Regards, Tristan -- _ _V.-o Tristan Miller [en,(fr,de,ia)] >< Space is limited / |`-' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= <> In a haiku, so it's hard (7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ >< To finish what you _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
