On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:35, bruce decided we wanted to hear the following: > hi... > > i'm playing with a SPEC file, and trying to get a better understanding of > what it's doing. is there an RPM guru, someone who has created complex spec > files that I can talk to! 1. if you have specific questions then you can ask them here. There are plenty of folk on here who build rpms on a regular basis. 2. alternatively you could read the cvs checkout of Maximum RPM, looking for the commands that you're not following. http://www.rpm.org 3. the feodra packaging guidelines (as mentioned already) are a good resource. 4. if you are reading a spec file and see lots of references to items like %{_somename} that are not clear to you. you can always run rpm --eval %{_somename} to see what it expands to... (most of them will work that way) 5. if you test build, *NEVER* do it as the root user. That way lies madness. And messed up operating systems. Regards Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." - Robert Orben
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