Re: RPM for gnome-libs 1.0.54?
- From: "Mark M. Wilson" <mmwilson ncsl dcr state nc us>
- To: Keith Wright <kwright tiac net>
- CC: raul cantara com, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: RPM for gnome-libs 1.0.54?
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 09:23:29 -0500
Or you can download it in PostScript form for free; I think on the
www.redhat.com website in the documentation area.
--Mark M. Wilson
Keith Wright wrote:
>
> > From: Raul Acevedo <raul@cantara.com>
> >
> > Zach Frey wrote:
> >
> > > rpm -ta <tarball>.tar.gz
> > >
> > > This should generate the source RPM, plus all binary RPMs.
> >
> > If this is all it takes to generate binary RPMs, then why:
>
> Oh, this is silly. Zach coded up a simple-to-use procedure,
> that doesn't imply that it was simple to code.
>
> If you want real simple, what's wrong with (./configure; make)?
>
> > 1. Does GNOME not *always* provide RPMs for every tarball release, given
> > that it's so simple?
>
> That command doesn't work on _any_ tarball, just on one that contains
> a tar'ed and gzip'ed RPM spec file. Somebody has to make that spec file.
>
> > 2. Isn't this information on generating RPMs from the tarball given
> > someplace really obvious and easy to find?
>
> This is just an RPM command with the build-from-zip'ed option.
> It's not up to the Gnome programmers to document rpm.
> Start with 'man rpm', if that doesn't do it RedHat sells a
> book called 'Maximum RPM'.
>
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