[CentOS] Making rpm from tar.gz

Miark wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:15:53 +0300, Ioannis wrote:
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> Might checkinstall help?

It might, but in my experience it doesn't. I've tried using it
three times, and each time it bombed out somewhere. I tried for
a few hours to get past the problems each times, and finally
gave up on it. It's a nice idea, but suffers in the implementation.

It's been a year or so since I used it, so things may be better
now, but I can't recommend it.

Mike
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