rpm guru....

[Stuart Sears]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:35, bruce decided we wanted to hear the following:
> hi...
>
> i'm playing with a SPEC file, and trying to get a better understanding of
> what it's doing. is there an RPM guru, someone who has created complex spec
> files that I can talk to!
1. if you have specific questions then you can ask them here. There are plenty 
of folk on here who build rpms on a regular basis.
2. alternatively you could read the cvs checkout of Maximum RPM, looking for 
the commands that you're not following.
http://www.rpm.org
3. the feodra packaging guidelines (as mentioned already) are a good resource.
4. if you are reading a spec file and see lots of references to items like
%{_somename} that are not clear to you.
you can always run
rpm --eval  %{_somename}
to see what it expands to... (most of them will work that way)

5. if you test build, *NEVER* do it as the root user. That way lies madness. 
And messed up operating systems.

Regards

Stuart
-- 
Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
"Quit worrying about your health.  It'll go away."
- Robert Orben
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