[CentOS] Re: packaging local builds

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:23:46PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
> >     I would suggest you start at www.rpm.org. There are tutorials
> > there. After you've got a feeling on how it works, you should get
> > a few SRPMS from the CentOS repository, and see if you can understand
> > them (the specfiles). It will also give you a feel on the particularities
> > of rpm packages for CentOS (trust me, it will change at lot from on
> > distro to another).
> >
> The last time I looked www.rpm.org it appeared not to have been updated
> in awhile.   Additionally, there is a rpm builder's list at RedHat's
> site that was quite active and might yield some results on a search of
> the archives

Unless you are willing to read the source, www.rpm.org is one of the
best resources. Sad, but true.

And if you are talking about rpm-devel[1] list, that is a common misconception.
That is not a package builders list, but a list for the people who are
coding rpm itself (main developers, contributors etc). You can get some
help there regarding package building, because, if see, people there
know how rpm works. But that is usually frowned uppon.

[1] - rpm-list at list.redhat.com, rpm-list at redhat.com

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