> There is nothing wrong with starting from the upstream spec. It will > have to adhere to the standards though, no flexibility on that. It > would be best if upstream could accept the changes you have to make so > that life is easier. well, since one of the standards is "no other-distro stuff in the spec," that makes courier's incompatible. My main concern is that it's designed to build an rpm -- on any rpm-based distro. I can clean up the stuff that would annoy rpmlint, possibly the group name (nonstandard), but I'm not about to maintain it in such a way that I always have to pull out Sam's non-fedora customizations. For reference, the file is available at: http://courier.cvs.sourceforge.net/courier/courier/courier/courier.spec.in?view=markup -Chris -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list