[CentOS] Making rpm from tar.gz

Mon Apr 23 22:46:13 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> OS: CentOS 5 x86.
> 
> 
> 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?


Generally works well if there's a .spec file in the tarball, not at all 
if there's none. I don't know exactly what happens if there are two or 
more .spec files; I suspect you get rpms as defined by one of them.


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