Re: Building rpms with make

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Wednesday, 19 December 2007, at 11:51:15 (-0500),
Richard Siddall wrote:

> Well, I never mentioned CVS, or SVN.  Or Gnome.  Or Fedora.  I just
> want to build a set of RPMs for various distros as painlessly and
> efficiently as possible.

You may be interested in Mezzanine:

http://beta.kainx.org/wiki/view/Mezzanine

It handles both CVS and SVN (the latter only in 1.9, though) and is
used as the sole build and package maintenance tool for the entire
Caos Linux distro (www.caoslinux.org).  It was designed specifically
for doing package and distro maintenance under version control.

> I just took a look at the contents page for the Cervisia manual, and
> it doesn't mention RPM at all.

That's because it's a front end to CVS, not a build tool.

> The RPMs happen to be of a mod_perl/HTML::Mason application and all
> the supporting Perl modules.

Mezzanine contains perlpkg which makes it quite easy to package CPAN
modules.

Michael

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