• Create RPMBUILD directory structure : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
     mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
    
  • Download the current release http://code.google.com/p/logwarn/downloads/detail?name=logwarn-1.0.10.tar.gz&can=2&q=
     wget -O ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/logwarn-1.0.10.tar.gz http://logwarn.googlecode.com/files/logwarn-1.0.10.tar.gz
    
  • Extract the contents of the download
     cd /tmp && tar -vzxf ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/logwarn-1.0.10.tar.gz 
    
  • Build logwarn to create the SPEC file
     cd logwarn-1.0.10 && ./configure && make
    
  • Build the rpm
     rpmbuild -ba logwarn.spec
    
  • You now have rpms and srpms to use
     find ~/rpmbuild/RPMS
     find ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS