Building RPMs question

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Look at checkinstall.  I don't have an address handy bug ask jeeves for it. 
 I used it when I had to generate RPMs.


Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Hi all !
> 
> Need help with building RPM packages. Here's my problem:
> 
> Previously, I used Apache RPMs from FalseHope, created by Henri Gomez.
> They're actually pretty good, but because of a bug in Apache 2.0.47, and
> the impending deployment of a web service I'm working on, I need the
> latest 2.0.48 version. I can get the latest from Fedora Core updates,
> but personally, I don't trust Red Hat's versions of Apache.
> 
> I can get the tarballs and compile it, but I need an RPM package
> because someone else is going to maintain the server after I finish
> setting it up. So, I was wondering how I could build an RPM package
> specifically for Apache. I've been googling last night to search for
> tutorials on RPMs, but so far, the docs are either too old (RPM v3.x
> mostly), or for other distributions. Ideally, if there's a web tutorial
> on building RPMs, that would be great !
> 
> So, my question is : does anybody know of any good resources for
> building rpm packages?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> pascal chong

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