On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:21 +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote: > Thanks for that, and that makes me more curious. Could you please > point me to sources of information that I can read to understand how > to do this? Sites, links, tutorials that can help me in *specifying* > the compression method I want to use for packaging my RPM? You should take a look at the rpm howto and Saou's "the fight" if you haven't already: http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/ http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/ You can also google for info. It's kind of hard finding up to date info on building rpms but you should be able to find enough info to get you going. The Source: section in your .spec file is where you specify if your source tarball is packagename.bz2 or packagename.gz. RPM itself doesn't compress the files it actually uses cpio archives to store your %files. You should read some info on building RPMS first so that you can get an idea of what is required to build an RPM before you get started. Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
