Call for developers: rpmbuilder

Chris Evich cevich at redhat.com
Tue Sep 9 17:59:52 UTC 2008


> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Evich <cevich redhat com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hopefully this is the right mailing list :)
>>
>> Project rpmbuilder aims to provide a template-based approach to packaging.  In
>> other words, it removes responsibility from developer to produce an RPM spec
>> file the "right" way.  Instead, the package developer just feeds in his
>> project's particulars, and a template-driven engine puts the pieces together
>> and spits out a "sane" RPM and SRPM.
> 
> The name is rather similar to the rpmbuild command. Hopefully this
> would not cause confusion...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Michel Salim
> http://hircus.jaiku.com/
> 

It was named similar intentionally, but I can see your point.  Good thing the
name is easily changed :)

Please contact me off-list for any further comments/suggestions/etc.

Thanks!




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