[CentOS] Making rpm from tar.gz

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:46:13AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> >OS: CentOS 5 x86.
> >
> >
> >I have read in some places that we can make an rpm package from tar.gz, 
> >by issuing rpmbuild -ta. However it doesn't seem to work. Any hints?
> 
> 
> Generally works well if there's a .spec file in the tarball, not at all 
> if there's none. I don't know exactly what happens if there are two or 
> more .spec files; I suspect you get rpms as defined by one of them.

The "-t" code on rpm is ugly, Ugly, UGLY. I avoid using it at all costs.
Having more than one specfile on the tarball is not something I would
be willing to experiment with.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
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