On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 01:23 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings Aly, > > Aly Dharshi wrote: > > Wouldn't it be a rpmbuild -ta source_tarball > > Exactly that. The command as you stated is : > > # rpmbuild -ta pine.tar.gz ( That would be pine , the email client ) . > > One note here , though , the Original Poster should be using Fedora Core > 2 and above in order for the above command to work , for Fedora Core 1 > it is done differently ( man rpm would provide the way ). > > but it should have spec file in the tarball I believe, could be wrong. > > I believe you are not . > > Now as also stated > > # rpmbuild --rebuild would work but on *.src.rpm files only > > And a small addition for the Original Poster : > > http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/ I guess the rpmbuild process has specifics that it needs within the tarball: root@wayward4now Desktop]# rpmbuild -ta nxbuilder-2.0.0-23.tar.gz error: Name field must be present in package: (main package) error: Version field must be present in package: (main package) error: Release field must be present in package: (main package) error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package) error: Group field must be present in package: (main package) error: License field must be present in package: (main package) [root@wayward4now Desktop]# Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
