At 3:24 PM +0200 6/11/06, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: >On 6/11/06, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dear All >> >> I am trying to learn how to build a rpm from the tarball without >> checkinstall, and I am wondering whether there is already a program to >> produce a tentative spec file to be afterwards changed and corrected >> by the packager. Maybe a program like the one that I describe here >> would increase the productivity of packager. Is there such a program? > >Hello, > >yum install fedora-rpmdevtools > >there are numerous scripts along with it, especially the one you are >looking for, fedora-newrpmspec > >see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/fedora-rpmdevtools for more info :) While I haven't used either checkinstall or fedora-newrpmspec, it appears to me that a checkinstall-built RPM has a list of installed files in it, while the output of fedora-newrpmspec does not. Checkinstall uses installwatch to make the list of files, so you might want to use installwatch with fedora-newrpmspec. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
