[asterisk-dev] Asterisk spec-file and rpm-capable Makefile

[Jason Parker]

On 07/12/2011 04:59 AM, Thorolf Godawa wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> thanks a lot for your answer.
>
>> We don't use CVS, we use Subversion.
> I just searched through it with the Webbrowser, so good possible that
> it's not CVS :-)
>
>>> Can anybody point me to where I can find it?
>> http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/5/current/SRPMS/asterisk18-1.8.4.4-1_centos5.src.rpm
>> Does this not have what you want?
> No, unfortunately not, it does not include any Spec-file, the Makefile
> has no rule for "make rpm" and I can't find any reference about how to
> build a RPM from the sources.
>

You use the rpmbuild utility for that.  There are several options for building 
from an SRPM file, or extracting it and building from the .spec file.