On Monday 12 March 2007, Todd Lyons wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:08:06AM +0100, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > >Installing from packages where details of all packages are kept in a > >database gives gives many huge advantages, this is recognized by most, > >if not all, major OS vendors. I, too, was once too lazy (or ignorant) to > >learn to build my own program packages where I couldn't beg, borrow or > >steal others'. Well, now I can. > > If anybody wants to build rpms easier from sources, get mezzanine and > specgen (included in mezzanine). You can either do it locally or with a > VC backend (version control, ala cvs or svn) to manage your versions > that mezzanine will build. It takes a few hours of playing with it to > understand the process, but the advantages are HUGE. The lead developer > of mezzanine has two really nice writeups on it here: > http://beta.kainx.org/articles/index.php I don't think this is the forum to discuss various package building tools that are available (and I will not even bother to list similar tools). Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
Attachment:
pgpNF2Qdjr8Me.pgp
Description: PGP signature