Proposal: Building Packages under Fedora

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Mon Aug 29 18:51:51 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 02:08 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2005, 00:30 -0400 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams:
> > notecase format (available in Fedora Extras).
> valuable hint for me - didn't know it.
> 
> In Introduction you might add as a conclusion from your text: Even for
> non programmers (but administrators / users )  one should make an rpm
> package for all software, which the user will install from a tar ball
> because no rpm is available or because he/she has to change its
> behaviour. Because it is easier to administer the system.
> 
> Perhaps you should add a section after the Introduction with the titel
> "goals and intended audience" of something like that. You should add
> some information as
> 
> -  what can be learned here
> -  what is different form generell rpm guides (as MaximumRPM)
>    (perhaps: shorter / limited to essential? with features specific
>    to the Fedora distribution?)
> -  relation to the packaging guide of the extras project.

All excellent ideas. I will take them into consideration.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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