On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:51, william villanueva wrote:
> 
> Thanks Marvin.  This did the trick.

Your welcome.

> Incidentally, could you recommend any reference to making rpms from tar
> files without any spec files?   I had that notion while looking at  man
> rpmbuild <tar files>

Hhmmm...  Actually, I tried making my own RPMs before but wasn't lucky
enough.  I still don't have time making my own RPMs yet.  But there's a
good docs about RPMs.

- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/
- http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/
- http://www.rpm.org/

Also, you may want to use "checkinstall" package.

Good luck!

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