Re: Suggestion: put .rpm & .deb packacking scripts in CVS

[Richard Browne <richb pobox com au>]

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Gleef wrote:
>
> > I don't know about DEBs, but the only part of making an RPM that takes
> > thought is the spec file.  All of the main GNOME packages include this
> > spec file in their toplevel directory.  Most of them have a debian
> > directory as well, so I think debs are probably covered too.
>
> That said, it would be nice if 'deb' and 'rpm' were top-level make
> targets, as well as FreeBSD's /usr/ports.  Are patches to accomplish
> this welcome?

Even simpler perhaps, a script that does everything, including running
configure before making all the sub-packages. This means a newbie can untar
the files, run a single script, and have it all just happen. ?