SN for Red Hat (was Re: Sourcenav for debian)

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ben Elliston wrote:

>   I'm working on SN packages for Red Hat as well.  Any
>   suggestions/advice you may have would be very much appreciated.
>
>One suggestion I have is to pay close attention to annotating documentation
>files in the RPM spec.  Too many third-party RPMs are generated that don't
>differentiate documentation files from executables.  Running `rpm -qd <pkg>'
>is extremely useful.

Yep, not to worry, I try to make my RPMs adhere to as many
standards - official, and defacto - as possible, and also make
life easy for the end user.  Also, I try to maintain
compatibility between Red Hat 6.x and the new 7.x although I
haven't had a chance to fully test my environment out yet.  I
also do everything as non-root to make things even more flexible.

If I get a working spec, I'll submit it back for possible
inclusion to you guys, and you may also feel free to patch it as
necessary.

>Thanks for doing this work!

No problem.  The benefit comes from everything learned about RPM
during the process.  ;o)  I've learned a lot about packaging from
other things I'm packaging so I thought tackling something a bit
more insane might help increase the knowledge of RPM internals a
bit.  ;o)

Take care!


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