On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 at 18:09, William Park via talk <[email protected]> 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 there command line utility? In Slackware, it's just "makepkg". > > Background: > > I use "netpipes-4.2" a lot. Debian and Slackware have it, but Redhat > variants don't. I can use netcat and pipe (and I do), but there are so > many variations (ie. nc, netcat, ncat), each with different behaviour > and options. I like to use what I'm familiar with. > > So, I downloaded the source, compiled it, and installed to a directory. > Now what?
I used to use 'checkinstall' a lot. Whenever I did the "./configure ; make ; make install" dance, I used 'checkinstall' on my predominantly Debian systems. It tracks the created files, and creates a system package. And if I didn't like the product, I could then 'apt purge X' to remove the package I'd made. I rarely used it to move the package to another system, but that usually worked if the other system was the same architecture and same OS. I think 'checkinstall' works on Fedora (it claims to make RPMs), but it doesn't seem to be packaged for it. http://checkinstall.izto.org/ Last bug fix 2016, spectacularly retro website. But it's still packaged in Debian. Not sure this is a path you want to pursue, but it's a program I found very useful for a whole lot of years. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
