John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:

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G'day Les, good to see you again, virtually speaking! <<

'morning, John - you're up early!

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Note that the file name need not fully reflect the package name; the package could be el5.centos.i386.rpm and the file .el5.lesbell.i386.rpm <<

As I understand it, the package name will generally be a substring of the file name, and I'd certainly favour consistency here. E.g. filename pdftk-1.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm, once installed, will show up as pdftk-1.12-1.el5.centos. The way I've done this is simply to set the Release string in the spec file to be "1.el5.centos", but obviously I could automate this by defining some stuff in .rpmmacros or in /etc/rpm or somewhere.

Anyway, at this point, I'm able to rebuild RPM's for my own setup (as I used to do for RH9 long after RH had given up on it). I just figured I'd get on top of the process of releasing stuff back to the community. In any case, it'll have to take a back seat for a couple of weeks, as I have a literature review due in next week as part of my progress towards my Masters thesis (would you believe, I've gone back to school?!),

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909