Re: tutorial for building rpms?

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 04:38:14PM -0500, rpjday wrote:
> 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?

All of SuSE, Mandrake and Conectiva do some very nice packaging,
I've stolen many ideas there. PLD is my personal favorite because they
send me intelligent and sensible patches that actually work.

(No offense to anyone. :-)

As for "formally correct" and "good building practices", getting
the job done is what counts. JMHO, YMMV.

And, yes, I've got 2-4 patches from PLD that are gonna get applied
now that I've finally got rpm-4.0.3 out the door. Apologies for the
delay ...

73 de Jeff

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