[CentOS] Re: Installing Dag's RPMs

[alex at milivojevic.org]

Quoting Dan Pritts <danno at internet2.edu>:

> I spent three hours figuring out how to write a spec file to create
> an RPM that doesn't do anything other than tell the RPM database
> that such and such a capability is installed (some java app didn't
> think i have "java" since sun's rpms didn't tell RPM it was there).

Lots of info about RPM.  With entire chapter describing spec files and how to
create RPM packages:

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/

The "template" spec file for Fedora:

http://www.fedora.us/docs/spec.html


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