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Re: [LUG] Packaging assistance

 

On Wed, 18 May 2005 22:50:41 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:

Would anyone fancy building a few packages from source as a test build?

I've built a Debian package and a Mac OSX Fink package. I know there are tools 
to build an RPM from Debian but if someone using an RPM-based distro fancies 
tinkering with rpm-build and has written a .spec file before (or is willing 
to find the docs), could have a go?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qof

Make sure you use the CVS as the code isn't on release yet.

Also, Slackware, SuSE, maybe even on non-8x86 hardware. It only depends on 
libc, glib (not Gtk) and libxml2 (>= 2.5.10).

Thanks.

Would "checkinstall" not generate an RPM package?  I know on a Debian based system 
the default is to generate (and then install) a .deb file, but if you specify "-R" 
it should make an RPM package... although it may complain when trying to install it 
:D

Or would this not help at all?

Grant.
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