Re: convert tar.gz to RPM

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: convert tar.gz to RPM
From: Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:48:12 -0800
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On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:56 PM +0100 Rakotomandimby Mihamina<mihamina.rakotomandimby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tarballs are source packages, .rpm are binary ones.
You need to compile then.

If the tarball contains a single spec file, it can be used like a sourceRPM:


rpmbuild -ta foo.tar.gz

I've also seen a GUI tool for building RPM's that solicits the datanormally supplied by a spec file:


<http://krpmbuilder.sourceforge.net/>

References:
- convert tar.gz to RPM
  - From: Mark Haney
- Re: convert tar.gz to RPM
  - From: Rakotomandimby Mihamina

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