On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 9:26 am, Jerry Barton wrote: > OK i'm gabby today. I'm trying out some new things here and trying to > learn more. Besides my font problem, tonight's other project was to learn > building rpms from a source .tar.bz2 format. just for testing i downloaded > the source for the aspell english dictionary to play with. Now... from > reading man rpm it seems i should use: > > rpm -ta packagename.#.#.tar.bz2 right? > > but.... > i get the following error > > [jerry@supertrouper jerry]$ rpm -ta aspell-en-0.51-0.tar.bz2 > error: Failed to rename /home/jerry/RPM/SPECS/rpm-spec.1Q4OcU to > /home/jerry/RPM/SPECS/rpm-spec.1Q4OcU: No such file or directory: No such > file or directory [jerry@supertrouper jerry]$ > > I do not have a ~/RPM/SPECS/ folder, do i need one? also, do i need to > copy anything in there? build some kind of spec file? (i don't even know > what one is lol) Could someone please explain a little or point me to a > link. > > Thx > Jerry.
An RPM needs a spec file telling it how the files in an application are to be treated. Here is the Mandrake guide to making RPMs http://www.mandrakelinux.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/ An easy way to make an RPM from a tarball is using the checkinstall package (I think checkinstall is in contrib) http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ Compile your tarball with './Configure' and 'make' as normal and then run checkinstall. It will create an RPM for you and install it. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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