[CentOS] Making rpm from tar.gz
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Apr 23 23:22:05 UTC 2007
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>> 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.
Some packers include .spec files for more than one distro. Be grateful.
Be cautious.
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John
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