On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:30:56PM +0530, Ashwin Khandare wrote: > Does anyone knows about any script/tool that can convert tar.gz > files into rpms?
There are certainly tools to help one create rpm files (such as rpm itself), but there isn't going to be a simple universal converter because rpm and tar.gz files are not the same kind of things. A tar file is nothing be a way to collect a bunch of files into a single file. A gz file is nothing but a compressed file. A tar.gz file is a compressed collection of files. The files that go into a tar.gz file can be anything. They can be source code that needs to be compiled (they can be buggy source code that won't compile!). They can be binary code that is ready to execute. They can be music, they can be dirty pictures, they can be forgeign language dictionaries, they can be old e-mail, they can be seismic data. Anything that you can put in a file you can put into a tar.gz file, and you can do so on nearly any kind of computer or operating system. A rpm file, by contrast, is explicit details about how to install and how to uninstall something on a Red Hat Linux computer--along with the "something". (The tar.gz file is only "something".) rpm files also include dependency information detailing what the prerequisites are for some something. So I think the question has several (possibly annoying) answers. Pick one. - If you want to install something on your own machine: Find the rpm file that Red Hat (or someone else responsible) has created, and install it. - If you want to install something on your own machine and there is no rpm version available: Uncompress and untar the file, and start looking for a "README" or other instructions on how to install from that form. - If you have some package of your own that you want to distribute to others as an rpm file: Find someone nerdy who knows all about making rpm files and have him/er do it for you; or learn a bunch of groady details about rpm yourself and do it yourself. There might be a tool that can figure out how to take source code that includes a well behaved "configure" script and well behaved "install" and "uninstall" Make targets and compile and build you an rpm. Sounds complicated and like something that would need some expert manual steps, but maybe someone else knows about it. Hope this was helpful, -kb, the Kent who has never make an rpm file. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
