Use Checkinstall Re: [wplug] tarballs to RPMs

[Robert Coutch]

Strange that the spec file is good enough for the make but not for the rpm 
build.



On Saturday 03 January 2004 09:29 pm, James O'Kane wrote:
> 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
>
>
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