-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:46:13AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > 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. The "-t" code on rpm is ugly, Ugly, UGLY. I avoid using it at all costs. Having more than one specfile on the tarball is not something I would be willing to experiment with. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGLTiRpdyWzQ5b5ckRAl4MAKC2CpoIRSz+NN+eOJKTsCTpedYhdACfQCKc mNkDXhaoUookpfWmcZbafCs= =2XYj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----