On Tuesday, 26 April 2005, at 09:24:51 (+0100), Nigel Metheringham wrote: > What means are people using to build clean packages (especially for > rpm based distributions which are not the primary ones running on > your own boxes)? Mezzanine (http://www.kainx.org/mezzanine/) makes it very easy to build RPM's in a chroot jail, build as an alternative (non-root) user, create patches, manage packages in revision control, and so forth. Though geared toward cAos, the document below provides an excellent tutorial on getting started with Mezzanine, building packages in various environments, and so forth: https://wiki.caosity.org/tiki-index.php?page=Package+Maintenance&bl HTH, Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I gave you my purity, and my purity you stole. Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise? Am I just to stupid to realize? Stale incense, old sweat, and lies, lies, lies." -- Nine Inch Nails, "sin" _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
