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

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