As a point of discussion, or proof of concept, or some such...I'll mention that fink* has a very cool mechanism (perhaps intrinsic in apt-get when using debs, I don't know) wherein one can grab source packages from the CVS tree and have them built and installed using a single command line. I don't know if it can do a source package installation in the form of dropping the spec file and tarball into the normal package build environment tree, or not. *-Fink is a packaging project whose purpose is to package good Open Source software for use on Mac OS X. They use debs and apt-get and a wrapper written in Perl (I think) to handle the Mac OS X integration side of things. I don't know much more, but it sure is nice to have something like yum on the iMac I maintain for build/test purposes. Joseph Tate wrote: > Might there be a way to install the SRPM for a package using YUM? I > find that I do that pretty frequently. Say a commandline switch? > > Joseph -- Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com
