An introduction of the new cheerleader...

[Chuck Mead]

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Cristian Gafton wrote:
| On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Paul Heinlein wrote:
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|>Realistically, of course, third parties will continue to maintain
|>packages for a variety of reasons: the upstream developers aren't
|>interested in maintaining an rpm and/or the administrative files
|>associated with it (init scripts, logrotate entries, sysconfig files,
|>etc.) or the software is written for a different platform and requires
|>significant porting.
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| One of the problems is that there is still a fair bit of "black magic"
| going on about what to do and how to package a project effectively. I
| think there is room for a documentation project aimed at developers about
| what needs to be done to create a project-x.y.z.tar.gz arcchive that can
| be grokked successfully by rpmbuild -ta.
|
| I know that very few folks contact the author and send them relevant spec
| files, initscripts, logrotate files, etc after packaging something up.

Yes... this is true... as an example... the first spec file for nano
(going way back) came from me. Most upstream dev's appreciate it if you
contact them and make a submission.

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csm
Lunar Linux Project Lead
Disclaimer: "I am not a curmudgeon! No... really..."
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
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