I wanted to make rpm from the lastest src, but failed. Here's my log: git ls-files | tar --files-from /proc/self/fd/0 -czf "ovirt-engine-3.3.0_master.tar.gz" ovirt-engine.spec You can use rpmbuild -tb ovirt-engine-3.3.0_master.tar.gz to produce rpms rm -rf "/home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild" mkdir -p "/home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild"/{SPECS,RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,BUILD,BUILDROOT} mkdir -p "output" rpmbuild -ts --define="_topdir /home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild" "ovirt-engine-3.3.0_master.tar.gz" Wrote: /home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild/SRPMS/ovirt-engine-3.3.0-0.2.master.20130621014614.fc18.src.rpm mv "/home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild/SRPMS"/*.rpm "output" rm -rf "/home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild" srpm is ready at output rm -rf "/home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild" mkdir -p "/home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild"/{SPECS,RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,BUILD,BUILDROOT} mkdir -p "output" rpmbuild --define="_topdir /home/demo/gittest/ovirt-engine/tmp.rpmbuild" --rebuild "output/ovirt-engine-3.3.0*.src.rpm" error: cannot open output/ovirt-engine-3.3.0*.src.rpm: No such file or directory make: *** [rpm] Error 1