Raimund Eimann wrote:
can anyone give me a short intro on how to build a SuSE RPM for a package that I have only as tarball or point me to some docs about this? As far as I understand I need to write a SPEC file for this, but I couldn't find anything about typical SuSE SPEC file settings...
If it's not terribly fancy (ie, it doesn't have a ton of dependencies and pre-/post-install scripts) "krpmbuilder" is your friend. (It's in YaST.) Else, Google for the RPM Howto, or the (online) book "Maximum RPM" by Edward C. Bailey: RPM Howto: http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/ Maximum RPM: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ RPMs are finicky beasts, and if you're creating a SPEC file by hand, there are a few "gotchas" that you have to watch out for. Dabe -- Dabrien "Dabe" Murphy Sr. Systems Administrator Parabon Computation, Inc. www.parabon.com