Build rpm of monit 5.5

1. Download https://github.com/pcharlesleddy/misc/blob/master/monit.spec
1. change "_topdir" to match your local system.
2. cd into what you set _topdir to
3. mkdir -p {BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp}
4. Download monit-5.5.tar.gz file and put it in the SOURCES directory
5. Put monit.spec in the SPECS directory
6. rpmbuild -v -bb --clean SPECS/monit.spec
1. yum -y install rpmdevtools
7. Output should mention where the rpm ended up
8. rpm -qlp on the rpm file to see what's in it

Gory details: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

Notes

1. "%spec -q" means be "quiet" when untarring, not that interesting, but people use it a lot