On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:37 am, you wrote: > 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.
Hell! now he tells me; do you do this on purpose Lonnie, wait and then pounce? -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
