Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Anand Buddhdev <arb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:43:29PM +0300, Andrei Verovski wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> You can make RPMs with check install package included with SuSE. just run 
> "configure --your-options", "make", "checkinstall make install".

Hey, thanks for that tip.

> > Right now, I'm making an RPM by taking a tarball and doing:
> > rpm -tb tarballname.tar.gz
> 
> I have question - how you specify  "configure --your-options" in this 
> case?

You have to extract the spec file from the tarball:

tar zxf tarballname.tar.gz tarballname/application.spec

Then edit application.spec, and supply your config options. Then place
the SPEC file in /usr/src/packages/SPECS, and the file tarballname.tar.gz
in the /usr/src/packages/SOURCES directory.

And finally run rpm -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/application.spec

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Anand Buddhdev
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