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> made. Other than that, I bet you could do non-root. The following can
be scripted
> easily.
> 
...
> 2. unpack them somewhere.
> 3. for each of them, go to the top directory of the unpacked tarball,
and do
> ../configure, then look in (I'm going by memory) TOPDIR/utils/* you
should see a spec
> file there. Do this for the 3 tarballs and you get 3 spec files.
> 

The above steps can all be performed "automatically",
if the .spec files are updated to include the necessary
macros in the %prep (%setup -q) and %build stages.
This would make the building of the .rpm files less
error prone and more self-contained, and it would be
somewhat self-documenting.

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