To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: RPM specfiles for commercial packages?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:20:40 -0700
--On Friday, October 01, 2004 1:01 PM -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III
<tibbs math uh edu> wrote:
So far I've done Matlab R14sp1, Mathematica
5, the PGI compiler suite and RealPlayer. (OK, RealPlayer was already
an RPM but doing everything in a postinstall script is pretty nasty.)
How do others handle patches? I use Lugaru Epsilon (http://www.lugaru.com/)
and each patch shows up as a new package that can be applied to any
previous version within a major version branch. But I don't think there's
much prereq stuff enforced. And a lot of work is done in %post to set up
symlinks in /usr/local/bin and install the .info file.