[WBEL-users] building rpm from tar.gz

[Erik Williamson]

Another alternative is Checkinstall:

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

It's not under the most active development, but I've used it a fair bit 
when I'm too lazy to make a .spec file.  RPMs for Checkinstall can be 
found here:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/checkinstall/

Hope this helps,
Erik.

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:00:55PM +0800, Plug N Play wrote:
> 
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I'm trying to build rpm from a source (tar.gz).
>>
>>I've tried to google but it seems to be too much complicated.
>>The documentation I had found are not well documented and
>>I find it very confusing.
>>
>>If anyone will be willing to share links or docs are highly appreciated.
>>
>>I'm building postfix from tar.gz by the way.
> 
> 
> Read the man page for rpmbuild.
> 
> Assuming there is a spec file in the tarball, all you should have to
> do is: rpmbuild -ta foo.tar.gz
> 
> This might not work if you don't have permissions to the appropriate
> area.  You can run the commands as root (potential security risk), or
> configure your .rpmrc or .rpmmacros.
> 
> Dumping something like this:
> %_topdir    /home/username/rpm
> 
> into a file named ".rpmmacros" in your home directory will cause
> RPM's to be built at /home/username/rpm.  You have to create a
> handful of directories in there.  
> 
> This is the list of directories I have in there:
> BUILD
> RPMS  
> SOURCES  
> SPECS  
> SRPMS
> 
> If you posted the actual link to the tarball I could just e-mail the
> commands I used to get it built.  Alternatively, you might look at
> freshrpms and DAG to see if they have it nicely packaged.  I'd go
> look for you, but right now, my network connection is swamped and
> I'm having trouble pulling up DAG right now, and it appears
> freshrpms doesn't make it obvious where RHEL3/WBEL3 compatible RPM's
> are.  I'm assuming that Fedora Core 1 RPM's are still close to
> RHEL3.
> 
> If you run the rpmbuild command as root, the binaries will be under:
> /usr/src/redhat/
> 
> Any reason you want to use the one from the tarball?  It appears on
> rpmfind.net, that there are several SRPM's from Fedora Core 1-4 that
> you could be using as an SRPM to see if you can get that to build.
> 
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=postfix&submit=Search+...&system=fedora&arch=
> 
>     Thanks,
>         Kirby
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