Re: Gnome 2 Again

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 09:59, dballester kernpharma com wrote:
> 
> Hi:
>      I'm trying to create srpms from sources and ( I'm newbie in this field
> ) is not easy. Using the -ta rpm option ( a lot of thanks to the man who
> point me to this ) I can create the srpms  for some tar.gz without problem
> ( glib2, audio... for example). Another ones needs previously install of
> the recent rpms created to solve deps ( gtk2+ needs pango, glib2... ). The
> problems encountered ( an unresolved yet ) are :
> 
>      -Some tar.gz don't have all the information necessary to create the
> srpm ( a lot of messages about vendor, version, etc...  needed in a header
> to create the srpm ).
>      -Some srpms are created OK from tar.gz and installed correctly into
> the system, but when I try to install another package that depends on it,
> says that some files of the recently installed rpms don't exist. For
> example. I can create the srpm for pango, install it , but when I try to
> install gtk2+ claims that pangoX.so ( i don't remember well the name and
> I'm at work and the test are made at my home ) don't exist. I don't know,
> but may be that in some tar.gz is necessary to install sources with
> determinated configure options that are not specified by default. Another
> option is to force a rpm db rebuild, cause some package must be updated (
> at least with my poor knowledgment ) using the --force option.
> 
>      Any advice?
> 
> As always, regards and a lot of TIAS
> 

you could tryusing checkinstall as a base. I use it all the time.
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall

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