On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 04:59 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:08:33PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > > In a nutshell, i'd like to hack jhbuild to build tarballs and rpms, > > but that would require pulling spec files for each tarball from a > > predictable location in CVS. > > I actually keep my spec file in CVS for my projects, though some > seems to consider this "useless" if not bad practice. > > > It would also require someone with knowledge/experience in writing > > spec files to volunteer to write up-to-date spec files for at least > > some small number of modules, and get them in CVS, so that I could > > test them, and ideally volunteer to help me with problems as they crop > > up. > > Problem is to have portable spec files, all major RPM distro seems > to have their prefered guidelines and tricks, You could take a look at the JPackage[1] project - they seem to be able to create cross-distro RPMs for major Java applications. Obviously there will always be some applications that need to be packaged in a distro specific manner. Keith. [1] http://www.jpackage.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
