Re: How to create an RPM from a source tarball?

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Subject: Re: How to create an RPM from a source tarball?
From: "Peter Gordon" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:06:35 -0700 (PDT)
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Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that I read in a Fedora book once about a utility that
> would create an RPM from a sourceball.  Unfortunately, I don't have
> that book in front of me right now and, besides, it's pretty late on a
> Friday afternoon and my frain is pretty bried.
>
> Am I imagining this?  Is anybody aware of a simple script that would do this?

I believe you may be thinking of a script called "checkinstall".
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