On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 12:20 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > The biggest complaint that I read in both the press (linux based) and > hear is the difference in packaging. I need an rpm for this or that. > Use Apt in this version or Yum in that version. This creates a headache > for developers that want to share their work. What distros do they > support? I have seen enough that don't support Fedora to direct me to > look at making my own RPM's. Now to find the time. :) Take a look at checkinstall. I'm using version 1.6. Make sure to put /etc/selinux in the excludes section of /etc/checkinstallrc, and you should be able to generate rpms on just about any package that you can do a ./configure, make, make install process on. Just substitute checkinstall for the make install step. Dave
