simple way to build rpm?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;)
>
> The procedure used to be very simple:
>
> ./configure
> make
> checkinstall make install
>
> Now I see there in no checkinstall in Fedora. What is the way to
> simple make a rpm packet?
>

http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm<http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/%7Eizto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm>

You made my day!! I´ve been using Linux for the last 9 yrs and I wasnt aware
of checkinstall.
I always used the very cumbersome (manual) process outlined in this outdated
article...
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1/

FC
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