On Monday 21 January 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Unforch, I have yet to come onto a tutorial on writing spec files that >> explains it in sufficient detail that _I_ can understand it. If I want an >> rpm, I may use checkinstall, but its so bloody broken that by the time I >> get a good rpm built with it, the spec file, and its dependency list are >> badly broken. I built a gutenprint that ran my printer perfectly, but had >> to use smarts ability to freeze a version in place else the updates from >> FC6 insisted on installing gimp-print-4.2.7, a 5 year old orphaned for the >> last 4 years package, over the top of it. My printer is an antique Epson >> C82, but gimp-print-4.2.7 never heard of it other than as a generic. >> >> Now if someone were to write a tutorial on spec file's, starting at the >> McGuffy's Readers level, I MIGHT be able to do that. If it exists, I >> haven't found it, and I have asked here for guidance several times. >> >> Thanks Mikkel. > >I usually cheat, and start with the spec file of an earlier version. >Sometimes all you have to change is the version and the specific >options you want to feed to the configure script. (Oh yes - also the >change log.) > >I have built my own spec files, but I can't say that I know how to >do it well enough to write a guide on it. You couold say I do it >"cookbook" style. > >Mikkel Chuckle. But the cookbook, till now, seems to have been out of print, so it hasn't managed to penetrate to the wet ram yet. David sent me a link that looks to be helpfull earlier today, so we'll study that for a while. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Put no trust in cryptic comments.
