Re[2]: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey John, Say, where does the newly created rpm file end up, after checkinstall. To be honest, I don't know. I haven't yet tried it, just read the docs after recommendation by others. But I bet it's configurable. ;-) Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 April 2002 11:33 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey John, Say, where does the newly created rpm file end up, after checkinstall. To be honest, I don't know. I haven't yet tried it, just read the docs after recommendation by others. But I bet it's configurable. ;-) Roman The

Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-18 Thread Tim Holmes
# rpm -ta gtk-gnutella-0.80.tar.gz SNIP Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.src.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.i686.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84635 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd gtk-gnutella-0.80 + rm -rf

[newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Can you help me. I need to learn how to create rpm files from tar files. I want to experiment with alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9.tar.bz2 [root@localhost root]# cd /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9 [root@localhost alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9]# ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for gcc...

Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-16 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, I need to learn how to create rpm files from tar files. I feel that it falls into two parts, preperation and action. That would probably be best done with checkinstall http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ which is a tool that you run instead of make install. Of course, you must

Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Thanks Roman, Say, where does the newly created rpm file end up, after checkinstall. John On Tuesday 16 April 2002 12:35, you wrote: Hi, I need to learn how to create rpm files from tar files. I feel that it falls into two parts, preperation and action. That would probably be best done