[CentOS] Making rpm from tar.gz

Mon Apr 23 13:24:44 UTC 2007
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> OS: CentOS 5 x86.
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> 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?

This requires that there is a .spec file in the tar.gz.