Re: RPM targets for make dist?

[Braden McDaniel]

On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 13:14, Simon Perkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any plans to introduce the ability to generate RPMs using automake?
> Perhaps as an option to 'make dist'? What about the solaris packages format?
> 
> If people have Makefile.am files they've hacked by hand to do this, I'd also 
> be
> interesting in some pointers...

Why bother? Just use dist-hook to include your specfile in the tarball.
Once you have a tarball with a specfile in it, making an RPM is a simple
as

    rpm -tb tarball.tar.gz

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