download checkinstall, it should be in contrib, it will do the make install of a program, and input it into your rpm database
mark On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:37, you wrote: > I have been building a few packages from source such as evolution and > its support. I would like to insert somehow into the rpm database that > this has been done - specifically bonob-conf which has been built from > source and is available, but rpm does not know about it. Issueing a > --nodeps is a bit dangerous when there are a lot of dependencies. > > Should I be building ALL tar stuff (or rather cvs which is what I am > building from) into a src rpm, issue a "rpm -rebuild" and install it > from there? Is there a less messy way such as just telling rpm that > this package is there, even if it has not been installed as an rpm? > > BillK -- 9:35am up 9:13, 2 users, load average: 0.71, 0.33, 0.17
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