Got a good url for that ? I've been looking of late myself. I found checkinstall to be a pretty good program, but not quite what I was after personally. Thanks, TheFinn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@xxxxxxxxx> To: "RPM Package Manager" <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:37 AM Subject: RE: How to build an RPM? > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 23:59, Cameron, Thomas wrote: > > I've used checkinstall a couple of times and been really underwhelmed with it. > > > > Are there any other good tools out there for building spec files or RPMs? > > I've looked at Rust and checkinstall and they seems to essentially do the > > same thing. > > What was the problem with checkinstall? > > I believe checkinstall aims at allowing you to uninstall or eg. rpm -ql. > It does probably not aim at writing pretty spec files. (I have not even > looked at them, or if I have, I have forgotten what they looked like.) > > In this sense it has worked for me. > > If you maintain a source package I would recommend that you learn to > write spec files the hard way. It is not that hard. > > Regards > Enrique > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
