Re: OT: building rpm file

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Dec 2, 2006, at 12:07 AM, beast wrote:

> I've just got the perl-gtk tarbal, how do I make the rpm package? do I
> need to change something on the source?
> TIA.
>
> [root devil tmp]# rpmbuild -ta Glib-1.141.tar.gz
> error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
> error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
> error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
> error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
> error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
> error: License field must be present in package: (main package)

In CVS there is only perl-Glib.spec.in.  In Makefile.PL, a call to  
Glib::MakeHelper's postamble_rpm() creates a real spec file, as well  
as the dist-rpms and dist-srpms make targets.  Pretty much all of the  
modules in the gtk2-perl project use this technique.

So,

$ tar zxvf Glib-1.141.tar.gz
$ cd Glib-1.141
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make dist-rpms
$ make dist-srpms

will drop the rpm and srpm under $(HOME)/rpms.