Creating RPM with all the dependencies included from current installation

[asadujjaman]

Hi, I have VLC installed on my system and can play almost everything including mpeg, avi, ...

Now I want to create an RPM with all the dependencies of VLC included. How to make such RPM? How do notice about everything that VLC uses. I mean I need something like run-time dependency resolving. That Is - I wanna track every resources VLC uses during various operations.

Can anyone help?

[mahlerfan]

I can tell you the first step--

Checkinstall makes it easy to create an rpm from your own build. You can tell it what the dependencies are as well, the only thing is that I have no idea if you can include them. But it's possible that you can make rpm's out of the dependencies as well and write a simple script that just installs one after the other (just rpm -i or whatever you know what I mean). If you tar that you have everything you need in one package.

So let's say it's called vlc.tar.gz and it contains
(a) your readme file.
(b) your install.sh script and maybe uninstall.sh as well.
(c) the rpm files.


Sorry I know that's not what you wanted, but I hope it's of some help to you.

[asadujjaman]

Thanks. But wondering whether it is really possible to do what i am trying to.......