Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-14 Thread William Muriithi via talk
Morning, > > > I find creating RPM repositories relatively simple - createrepo(8) > > (or possibly createrepo_c(8)) feel straightforward to me. GPG package > > signing is not too hard. I find deb/apt repositories to be more > involved. > > dpkg-scanpackages can create repos for debian quite

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-12 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
Here is an SRPM for netpipes. In all it took about 15 minutes to find the source and a simple spec file. you can unpack the rpm using "rpm -ivh netpipes-4.2.3.src.rpm" you can go into ~/rpmbuild/SPEC and then build the rpm using "rpmbuild -ba netpipes.spec" On 2022-06-12 12:35, William

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-12 Thread Giles Orr via talk
On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 at 18:09, William Park via talk wrote: > > To RPM guys, > > I have a directory tree, created from "make install DESTDIR=...". Now, > I want to make RPM package from the tree. Online docs are too verbose > and confusing. > 1. Is there GUI app with appropriate fill in

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-12 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2022-06-12 12:35, William Park via talk wrote: I gave up.  I installed it to /usr/local.  I'll need to keep the tarball around, so that I'll know what files to remove. I had another thought. If you can find the package you need from another distro you might be able to use the program

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 10:49:54PM -0400, John Sellens via talk wrote: > I've long found that making linux packages seems to be more > complicated than I might have hoped. > > To build RPMs, you typically use rpmbuild(8) which uses a set pf > diretories (SOURCES, SPECS, BUILDROOT, RPMS, ...) to

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-12 Thread William Park via talk
I gave up. I installed it to /usr/local. I'll need to keep the tarball around, so that I'll know what files to remove. On 2022-06-12 00:44, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2022-06-11 18:09, William Park via talk wrote: I have a directory tree, created from "make install DESTDIR=...". Now,

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-11 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2022-06-11 18:09, William Park via talk wrote: I have a directory tree, created from "make install DESTDIR=...".  Now, I want to make RPM package from the tree.  Online docs are too verbose and confusing. [snip] I use "netpipes-4.2" a lot.  Debian and Slackware have it, but Redhat variants

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-11 Thread John Sellens via talk
I've long found that making linux packages seems to be more complicated than I might have hoped. To build RPMs, you typically use rpmbuild(8) which uses a set pf diretories (SOURCES, SPECS, BUILDROOT, RPMS, ...) to build rpms. But you might have a look at "fpm" - the "effing" package manager.

Re: [GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-11 Thread Anthony de Boer via talk
On 2022-06-11 6:09 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: To RPM guys, I have a directory tree, created from "make install DESTDIR=...". Now, I want to make RPM package from the tree.  Online docs are too verbose and confusing. 1. Is there GUI app with appropriate fill in boxes? 2. Is

[GTALUG] Making RPM from directory tree?

2022-06-11 Thread William Park via talk
To RPM guys, I have a directory tree, created from "make install DESTDIR=...". Now, I want to make RPM package from the tree. Online docs are too verbose and confusing. 1. Is there GUI app with appropriate fill in boxes? 2. Is there command line utility? In Slackware, it's