On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:44:00 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > I use a number of packages that don't ship with FC3: qcad, xcircuit, > etc. The suppliers of these packages usually offer rpms for certain > distros. I've never built an rpm before. Is it worthwhile for me to > build an FC3 RPM and share it with the package suppliers ? Or should I > leave this for the package developers to do, if and when they get FC3 > installed ? It is common practice for some software projects to accept contributed distribution-specific packages and either link them in the download section of a web site or declare them official builds. Many projects want their software to be available for as many distributions as possible without that users need to compile source code. However, not seldomly a packager stopped improving a package as soon as it seemed to build in his specific environment. And then the binary builds install, but lack desktop menu entries or other integration work. Or the packager didn't build on a clean Fedora Core system and doesn't mention where to get required dependencies. Alternatively, you could also help with [and gain experience with] the qcad package for Fedora Extras and tell the upstream project about it when it's ready: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=848 > Is there anything I need to watch out for if I do build rpms ? Find some packaging hints and guidelines here: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraDocuments -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.667 loadavg: 2.35 2.36 2.11