How about an intermediate solution:
# yum install rpmdevtools
$ rpmdev-newspec -t .spec
That will take care of the heavy lifting...
Richard
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Am 21.03.2013 19:55, schrieb 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 exi
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 f
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 smal
poma wrote:
On 21.03.2013 01:20, Bill Davidsen wrote:
poma wrote:
On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
...
Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-(
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;)
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
wget -c
http://asic-linux.co
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
On 21.03.2013 01:20, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> poma wrote:
>> On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-(
>>>
>>
>> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;)
>
> Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
>
wget -c
http://asic-
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 18.03.2013 18:30, schrieb Jared K. Smith:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
what the hell did you not understand in "rpmbuild"
Your tone is not appropriate... it sounds like the original poster
either doesn't have a spec file to begin with, or does
Jared K. Smith wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but
sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec
files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-
poma wrote:
On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
...
Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-(
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;)
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
--
Bill Davidsen
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than fr
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:37:16 +0100
Reindl Harald wrote:
> the problem was that the OP did even not have Fedora and YUM
> and if he would state this at the very first begin of the
> thread i would not have answered in the whole thread because
> i do not know how tu build RPM's on other distributio
Am 18.03.2013 18:30, schrieb Jared K. Smith:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> what the hell did you not understand in "rpmbuild"
>
> Your tone is not appropriate... it sounds like the original poster
> either doesn't have a spec file to begin with, or doesn't understand
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> what the hell did you not understand in "rpmbuild"
Your tone is not appropriate... it sounds like the original poster
either doesn't have a spec file to begin with, or doesn't understand
it. There's no reason to talk down to him like this.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, but
> sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts, spec
> files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in 12-15
> years, let it
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days,
but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts,
spec
On 16.03.2013 19:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
...
> Again, thanks, it appears that the good old days are gone. :-(
>
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ ;)
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Am 17.03.2013 01:14, schrieb Doug:
> Thank you for your interest. It seems there is at least one other reader of
> this list
> who does not like me. So don't answer then, Harald
it has nothing to do with "like"
if you state at the very first beginning that you are not using
Fedora some comple
On 03/16/2013 07:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/16/2013 04:24 PM, Doug wrote:
My distro doesn't have YUM.
--doug
What distro are you using? AFAIK, yum is used by "almost all" RedHat
based distros, including Fedora. And, if you're not using Fedora, why
are you asking on a Fedora mailing list
Am 17.03.2013 00:52, schrieb Reindl Harald:
>
>
> Am 17.03.2013 00:24, schrieb Doug:
>> On 03/16/2013 04:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug:
Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm
Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to:
rp
Am 17.03.2013 00:24, schrieb Doug:
> On 03/16/2013 04:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug:
>>> Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm
>>> Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to:
>>> rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download
>>> directory.
>
On 03/16/2013 04:24 PM, Doug wrote:
My distro doesn't have YUM.
--doug
What distro are you using? AFAIK, yum is used by "almost all" RedHat
based distros, including Fedora. And, if you're not using Fedora, why
are you asking on a Fedora mailing list instead of one for your own
distro? (No
Doug wrote:
On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days,
but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts,
spec files, etc. Thanks, bu
On 03/16/2013 04:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug:
Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm
Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to:
rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download
directory.
Tried again: rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rpm and still got
[doug@linux1
Am 16.03.2013 21:26, schrieb Doug:
> Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm
> Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to:
> rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download
> directory.
> Tried again: rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rpm and still got
> [doug@linux1 Downloads]$ sudo rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rp
On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5
days,
but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts,
spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn
On 03/16/2013 12:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Actually I'm spoiled using RPMcreator years ago, it just asked questions
and did the rest.
You would need to fill in the same text-box fields in a a GUI app that
you would fill in a template spec file. In both cases, you'll need to
supply the buil
On 03/16/2013 12:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
But in this case, I'm dealing with people who didn't even have tar and
make installed, and expect that if I donated the programming I should
donate support, too. Oh, and they still remind me I haven't made a money
donation this year.
Send them a sta
Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days,
but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts,
spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in
12-15 years, l
Thomas Cameron wrote:
On 03/14/2013 02:43 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5
development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll
another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tools to help create an
rpm from scratch, somethi
On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days,
but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts,
spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in
12-15 years, let it be someone else's
On 03/14/2013 02:43 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5
development testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll
another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tools to help create an
rpm from scratch, something more intuitive than
Am 15.03.2013 23:02, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days,
>>> but sounds like it all has to be created
>>> by hand in terms of scripts, spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't
>>> gotten less time consuming
On 03/15/2013 06:02 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 15.03.2013 17:52, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5
development
testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and
I'm hoping
ther
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 15.03.2013 17:52, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development
testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping
there's by now a better tool to help create an rpm
Am 15.03.2013 17:52, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5
>> development
>> testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping
>> there's by now a better tool to help create an rpm from scrat
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development
testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping
there's by now a better tool to help create an rpm from scratch, something more
intuitive than the man page in one windo
Bill Davidsen tmr.com> writes:
>
> I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development
> testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping
> there's by now a better tools to help create an rpm from scratch, something
> more intuitive than t
Am 14.03.2013 20:43, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5
> development testing days. Now I would find it
> convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping there's by now a better tools to
> help create an rpm from scratch,
> something more intu
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development
testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping
there's by now a better tools to help create an rpm from scratch, something more
intuitive than the man page in one window and vi in the oth
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