On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:41 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
I have zero experience with creating rpm packages, but I ran across a reference to checkinstall in a reply to one of my queries on ruby-forum and have decided to have a go at putting an rpm together, for my own purposes if it proves beyond my capability to do so for the community.
Quite a few people have found this useful:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide