How to make a RPM

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On 10 Jun 2002 at 11:29, andreas.nebgen at acterna.com wrote:
> I made the KDevelop 2.1.1 Version on KDE 2.2.2 on RedHat Linux.
> I made "make" and "make install" and have it running.
> Good for me because I will do crosscompiling!
> If you tell me how to make a binary .rpm package I can send it to you!!

You can use 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/?topic_id=46%2C41%2C147%2C257 to 
start with so that you can come up with an RPM.

It doesn't do any dependency checking etc. So in next step you have to tweak 
the spe file for RPM. IBM developerworks has some good tutorials on making 
RPMS.

HTH

Bye
 Shridhar

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