On Thu, 30 May 2002, Keith Antoine wrote: > Ok! No it really does not, but you writing is gorgeous <grin>..... > I have seen and noted for experimentation that there is a swithch in rpm > (rpm -ta) that is supposed to make an rpm out of a tarball: rpm -ta > vcr.xx-xx-x.tar.gz .......I have yet to try it successfully on a file that > does not have any dependencies but am too busy doing small libs and video > files with checkinstall. > > However i will have to get to see if it does work and also look at making > rpms for files that do not do a 'make install'.
It will only work if the tarball includes a spec file. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
