Actually, in some cases, you can build an RPM straight from the source tarball by using rpm -tb (I think). This presumes that the source tarball has a spec file in the appropriate place, however.
Jon On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Shaw, Marco wrote: > >My question, for somebody with more experience than me, is: > >Is the rpm package management system incompatible with compilation/installation > >directly from source? > >Could this be solved by a 'rpm --rebuilddb' after compiling the sources? > > Please use text and not HTML to send emails to any mailing lists. > > Yes, RPM package management is incompatible with stand alone source tarballs. There > is an an rpm-list mailing list, and also www.rpm.org if you wish to look into > creating > your own RPM packages. > > Marco > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
