Building rpm

Question

Is there an easy procedure to build an RPM.If so Please explain or provide the link.........

My requirement is very simple ..

I have two other RPMs which should be combined into one single RPM....

Please explain the process....

Thanks in advance..........

Answer 1

Building an RPM itself is rather easy, you just need to run

rpmbuild -ba <mypackage.spec>

The more complex task is creating the .spec file, which controls how the rpm itself is built. A good explanation is the book Maximum RPM, which is available on the rpm homepage. Creating a .spec file is handled here. From my own experience building a .spec file is something that's not easy -- but not too complicated either unless you want to make special things. The standard ./configure && make && make install is usually not too complicated.