Creating an rpm from scratch

[Bill Davidsen]

poma wrote:
> On 21.03.2013 01:20, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> poma wrote:
>>> On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;)
>>
>> Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
>>
>
> wget -c
> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/source/checkinstall-1.6.2.tar.gz
> tar xf checkinstall-1.6.2.tar.gz
> cd checkinstall-1.6.2/
> patch -p1 < ../checkinstall-1.6.2.novus.patch[1]
> make
> su
> make install
> /usr/local/sbin/checkinstall -R [-y] --fstrans=no --exclude=/sys
> rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/checkinstall-1.6.2-1.x86_64.rpm
>
> Checkinstall is an ad hoc packaging solution, not related to the Fedora
> packaging guidelines.
>
>
> poma
>
> [1] http://www.patrickmin.com/linux/tip.php?name=checkinstall_fedora_13
>
Thanks, will take a look.

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