Re: tutorial for building rpms?

[rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:18:21PM -0500, rpjday wrote:
> > 
> >   any good tutorials for building your own rpms that people here
> > would recommend?
> 
> Any and all packages from a Red Hat distro is the best example in
> lieu of a tutorial.
> 
> If you have to roll your own, then grab something similar and/or
> simple and just edit the spec file. 'Tain't hard.

i figured that much, but i vaguely recall someone (maybe not on
this list) saying that there were a few people who took great care
to make sure their RPMs were formally correct and represented good
RPM building practices.  would it be politically incorrect to ask
who we should use as role models?

rday