william villanueva wrote:

> 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>

If you don't have any .spec file, you could always use checkinstall.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall


You can even make tgz packages (for Slackware) and Debian packages as well.

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