Re: [SLE] how to make a RPM for Suse

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 18:52, Florent BERANGER wrote:

Hello,

how to make an RPM for Suse (is there an how-to, exemple of spec file,..) ?

Is there a contrib space ?

The easiest way is to use the checkinstall program (on the SuSE disks). It creates a bare bones .spec file (an rpm build config file) and builds rpms from source for you. It can even create Slackware tgz files and Debian debs. Other than that, I can recommend the book "Maximum RPM" which covers all the gory details of the .spec file, pre/post/install/remove scripts, dependencies, etc. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Sing blue silver Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net