spin your own RPM

# rpmbuild -ta rdesktop-1.7.0.tar.gz
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.21356
...
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/rdesktop-1.7.0-1.src.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/rdesktop-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/rdesktop-debuginfo-1.7.0-1.i386.rpm


Bravo Peter!  Almost no one who spins tar balls spins them
such that RPM's cam be made from them.  Very impressive!

-T

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