On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2001 16:26, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > > > Is there a simple way of converting *.tar.gz files to RPM files
> > > > for RH7.?
> > >
> > > Supposedly you can do an "rpm --tarbuild <tarball>" I have
> > > only tried it a couple times and it hasn't worked for me...
> > > 'course I'm on RH 6.2, but...
> > >   John
> >
> > If I remember right, this only works when there is a SPEC file in the tar
> > file.
> >
> > Mikkel
> 
> I bet this is the case. It tried some of the suggested examples and the ones 
> that came close to working all ended with a request for a SPEC file..
> 
Yeah. Supposedly there's a version of this that *doesn't*
require a Specfile.
        John



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