[CentOS] Re: centos] Making rpm from tar.gz

Mon Apr 23 13:56:14 UTC 2007
R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, 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 has to have a .spec file within itself for this to 
work - not all do

-- Russ Herrold