RubyGemsのtarボールからRPMパッケージをつくる

（2008/02/07perlfreak.vox.comより転載）

checkinstallがインストールされている前提。

$ tar zxvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.0.1
$ su
Password:
# checkinstall --fstrans=no -R "ruby setup.rb"

入力を求められたり、内容を変更する場合があるので、以下出力を参考まで。ただし、出力内容は途中まで。

--- （ここから） ---
checkinstall 1.6.0, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
This software is released under the GNU GPL.

The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist.
Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: y

Preparing package documentation...OK

Please write a description for the package.
End your description with an empty line or EOF.
>>

**************************************
**** RPM package creation selected ***
**************************************

This package will be built according to these values:

1 - Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.0 ]
2 - Name: [ rubygems ]
3 - Version: [ 1.0.1 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ Applications/System ]
7 - Architecture: [ x86_64 ]
8 - Source location: [ rubygems-1.0.1 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ rubygems ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 4
Enter the additional requirements:
>> el4

This package will be built according to these values:

1 - Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.0 ]
2 - Name: [ rubygems ]
3 - Version: [ 1.0.1 ]
4 - Release: [ el4 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ Applications/System ]
7 - Architecture: [ x86_64 ]
8 - Source location: [ rubygems-1.0.1 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ rubygems ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 11 <- 10と11が逆になっている Enter the additional requirements: >> ruby

This package will be built according to these values:

1 - Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.0 ]
2 - Name: [ rubygems ]
3 - Version: [ 1.0.1 ]
4 - Release: [ el4 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ Applications/System ]
7 - Architecture: [ x86_64 ]
8 - Source location: [ rubygems-1.0.1 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ruby ]
11 - Provides: [ rubygems ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:
--- （ここまで（実際にはさらに続く）） ---

これで

/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64

等にRPMファイルが生成される。