Re: [[gtkmm] RPM .spec files]

[Vladislav Grinchenko <vgrinche integ com>]

One way or the other, we would need spec files in all tarballs for
Gtkmm2/Gnommm2 and related libs. I looked at upcoming RedHat 8.0
packages listing and was shocked not to see any trace of Gtkmm in it.
Why? There is a C++ binding for ncurses.


-Vlad

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 05:29, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I believe that 3rd-party RPMs cause almost nothing but trouble due to a lack
> of discipline about how people set up their systems. I also believe that there
> should be only 1 definitive RPM of each package on any given distro - and my
> experience is that no 3rd party is willing to maintain an RPM for all future
> versions.
> 
> I think it's best to lobby distros, such as RedHat, to produce RPMs
> officially. 
> 
> Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca> wrote:
> > I notice that there are no RPM .spec files in the source tarballs
> > for the GNOME 2 related libraries.
> > 
> > Are the maintainers willing to include a .spec.in file in
> > the CVS server and to distribute the generated .spec file in
> > the source tarballs?  This would allow a user to say 'rpm -tb
> > gtkmm-1.3.23.tar.gz', for example, to produce binary RPMs.
> > 
> > I would be willing to provide this .spec.in file.  It would be
> > as simple as possible.  The compilation command would be this:
> > 
> >     ./configure --prefix=%{prefix} --disable-static && make
> > 
> > I could also help maintain this file as needed.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip @ sympatico . ca>
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> 
> 
> 
> Murray Cumming
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