Use Checkinstall Re: [wplug] tarballs to RPMs

Brian Sammon brians+ at cs.cmu.edu
Sun Jan 4 02:10:07 EST 2004


> > Strange that the spec file is good enough for the make but not for the rpm 
> > build.
> 
> I don't understand your comment. A .spec file is used solely for rpm, and 
> a Makefile is used for make.

To clarify, a spec file is a file named <something>.spec and it uses a special 
format that RPM understands.






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