[CentOS] Making rpm from tar.gz

Mon Apr 23 13:21:32 UTC 2007
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:15:53PM +0300, Ioannis Vranos 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?

The tarball needs to have the spec file inside otherwise rpmbuild won't
know how to build it.

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rgds
Stephen