[asterisk-users] Creating Asterisk Binary Package

[Dobry Dobrev]

Brendan Martens wrote:
>> Jim Boykin wrote:
>>> I know about those packages. Questions is how do we use those  
>>> packages
>>> to build our own RPM. We use asterisk SVN trunk.
>>>
>> asterisk usually comes with asterisk.spec and make target "rpm". With
>> some slight  modifications on the spec file you can pretty much build
>> whatever you need into the package.
>>
> 
> You can try checkinstall. It makes a package (it supports a few kinds,  
> rpm being one of them) out of the software you compiled. Basically  
> instead of finishing with "make install" you just do "checkinstall"  
> and it will make a package and then use your packaging system to  
> install it. I use this often for Debian and it works very well there.  
> You're distribution very likely has checkinstall available in it's  
> main repository. If not the website is here for more info: http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

Hey thanks, didn't knew about that, it worked right out of the box!
BR
Dobry

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> Brendan
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