On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:01, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Commercial software is an evil some of us have to live with and as > long as I have no choice I figured I'd try and make it as painless as > possible. So I've been packaging the various commercial software > around into Fedora-friendly RPMs so that I can move away from an NFS > or rsync-ed /usr/local. So far I've done Matlab R14sp1, Mathematica > 5, the PGI compiler suite and RealPlayer. (OK, RealPlayer was already > an RPM but doing everything in a postinstall script is pretty nasty.) > I doubt there up to proper Fedora standards but at least they work. > > Is anyone else doing this? Is there a place where we can exchange > specfiles? We have: mathematica matlab r13 and r14 maple nag and absoft fortran compilers among others. I don't think there is a place to exchange spec files, though there is nothing keeping you from posting yours or posting a .nosrc. rpm. -sv