On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at ieee.org> wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >> discovered rpm.org and will do some online reading about RPM there. > > Long ago on a planet far away... (-: or was that near the beginning of > this thread? :-) checkinstall was mentioned. By you and I installed it, shortly after I read your post. Thanks! > less /usr/share/doc/checkinstall-1.6.0/README > less /usr/share/doc/checkinstall-1.6.0/FAQ > checkinstall --help > > May be a moot point given other recent posts in the thread, but for > creating an RPM from scratch see: > http://genetikayos.com/code/repos/rpm-tutorial/trunk/rpm-tutorial.html Thank you for that link. I will read it later. > If a spec file is included then "rpmbuild -ta tarballname.tgz" may work. If that's all it takes, with a spec file, easy. As you probably know, when I looked at the contents of the tarball yesterday, it was a lot of JRE stuff. No source, no spec file. When I need something that isn't packaged and I try to roll my first package, I need at least the Binary and hopefully the Source. Open Source :-) > > Rolling your own RPM if a spec file is not included in the tarball is an > exercise left for the student RPM builder. I did some reading yesterday of a book about RPM on rpm.org and writing a spec file looks like something that may involve a lot of trial and especially error, to get it correct. With regard to the UPS, will look into nuts and apcupds more when I can, to see if I can figure out how to configure them for this UPS. We still have one Tripp Lite UPS that works, so I need to get their SW and see if it will shutdown that box.