Paul Smith 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?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Many times I just use the template at http://www.rpm.org/howto/thefight/
and go from there. It has worked for pretty much every RPM I've ever
had to build.
To find out what the list of files is, I usually do the standard dance of:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install DESTDIR /var/tmp/foo
then I do
cd /var/tmp/foo
find . -type f | sed "s/^\.//" >> /path/to/specfile
Go back and move the files into the right section of the spec file you
are creating and then go to town.
Thomas
