Re: tar.gz----->rpm

Darryl Luff <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:59:40 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user,gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche
Message-ID <[email protected]>
curlybraces wrote:

> hi all ,
>  
> i want to know ,
>  
> how to make a rpm package from filename.tar.gz ?

If the tar file contains an RPM .spec file, you can do 'rpmbuild -ta 
filename.tar.gz'. If not, you need to create a .spec file yourself. 
There's a good tutorial at http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/.