Use Checkinstall Re: [wplug] tarballs to RPMs

[James O'Kane]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Robert Coutch wrote:

> I thought maybe RPM would have something built-in to handle tarballs
> directly.

The way that rpm -t work is by extracting a .spec file from the tarball, 
and then using that. It is a shortcut from extracting the .spec file 
yourself, putting it into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ and the tar.gz into 
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and running rpm -ba specfile

That error you gave looked like an error in the provided spec file.

-james