RPM 101 question: rpmbuild against CVS-extracted files?

[lug at the-leveys.us (Don Levey)]

discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:05:42PM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
>> I'm running Fedora Core 4, so I'm RPM-based and I'd like to keep my
>> RPM database clean and accurate.  I'm trying to build a package for
>> which ready-made RPMs (binary or source) aren't available, nor are
>> source tarballs.  What I need seems only available through CVS
>> checkout.  NOTE: I'm not a developer, nor do I play one on TV.  I
>> have managed to check out the latest CVS files, though.
>>
>> I've done this, and have run autogen.sh to get to the point where I
>> can configure.  From here, what I'd like to do is create RPMs for
>> the main
>> and -devel package (in particular, libofx-0.8.1) based upon this
>> source. However, I don't know enough about rpmbuild to get this to
>> work correctly. Right now it's giving me an error about a
>> non-existent directory; before I screw up things any further, does
>> anyone have a pointer on how one can build an RPM from the CVS tree?
>
> What you are missing is a recipe for taking the source and
> building things from it; this recipe is called a spec file
> in RPM-speak.
>
> http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ can help.
>
> -dsr-

As it turns out, I've got the spec file.  Then again, I've just found that
'make rpm' seems to be working (someone must have thoughtfully make a rule
for RPMs), though it didn't create a libofx-devel RPM so I'll have to see
what else I need to do...  Thanks for the link!

 -Don