Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:14:45PM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
I have built software on unix/Linuix many times, but now I want to move two packages that I have built on one machine to another (both CentOS4.2), and the time seems ripe to discover how to use rpm. The packages are subversion-1.3.0 and swig-1.3.28. How do I turn the the results of the build process into rpms?
James, you are opening a whole can of worms here. RPM package building is not to the faint of heart. At least if you plan to do it right.
To be sure, but it doesn't hurt to one's feet wet either. Chkinstall is a cheap and easy first step for creating rpm's out of tarball packages.
I would suggest you start at www.rpm.org. There are tutorialsthere. After you've got a feeling on how it works, you should get a few SRPMS from the CentOS repository, and see if you can understand them (the specfiles). It will also give you a feel on the particularities of rpm packages for CentOS (trust me, it will change at lot from on distro to another).
The last time I looked www.rpm.org it appeared not to have been updated in awhile. Additionally, there is a rpm builder's list at RedHat's site that was quite active and might yield some results on a search of the archives