On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:11:38PM -0700, dan.trainor wrote: > cryptic nature. I've been doing a LOT of RPM exploration over the past > few weeks, and found the process of actually creating an RPM to be a > somewhat cumbersome and at times poorly documented system. I don't want Tell it, brother! 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). ugh. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile