Creating an rpm from scratch

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:11:08AM -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> >
> > Am 21.03.2013 01:37, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> > > Reindl Harald wrote:
> > >> well, and that is why i started with "unpack a existing src.rpm"
> > >> and look at the SPEC file which is cleraly doable for packages
> > >> which are only a few KB small and have SPEC files with lower than
> > >> 100 lines
> > >>
> > > As I said before, there is no existing SPEC for this package
> >
> > do you really not understand what i am saying?
> >
> 
> Having just read through the entire thread, it seems clear that you don't
> understand what *he* is saying.

Let me give it a shot.  Bill wants to package an application that does
not have an existing source rpm.  Hence there is no existing spec file.
He wants a utility that will help him write a spec file from scratch.

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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