Thomas TS wrote on Wednesday 20 June 2007: > # rpm -ta xawtv-4.tar.gz > > -ta: unknown option What you need ist rpmbuild which is part of the rpm-build package. # rpm -tb xawtv-4.tar.gz You may success with this, but it may also fail. > Inside the sources there is a xawtv.spec.in but i dont know how to > handle it ... *.spec.in is not enough. It's only a "blueprint" for the real specfile. It needs interpretation by autoconf (?) to become a specfile. > Anyway, the > > ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make > > do produce all the binaries... Now how to create an .i386.rpm from this > ? If the specfile from the tarball does not work, you will have to rewrite it. Have a look at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ -- Bye, Adalbert Avec!
