On 4/21/07, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/19/07, Alex White <ethericalzen at gmail.com> wrote: > > Question! > Answer? > > > I took the spec from Claws-Mail (formerly called Sylpheed-Claws) of > > FC6 and updated it from 2.9.0 to 2.9.1 (correctly I believe). I > > created the rpms from the build and I suppose I will sign them and put > > them up on kuei-jin.org. My question is, should I give them to someone > > to see if what I did is correct? QA?? I didn't edit any source or > > anything. I know that it works because I installed it on my machine > > and it's fetching mail right now. > > Excellent. One of the things that we tried to do with centos4 was to > not duplicate packages which were also in the RPMForge, or > centos.karan.org repositories. Not to turn you away, but the rpmforge > repository has this package built already. It does not appear to be > built for el5 though. Perhaps you could provide a patch to the > rpmforge folks so that this package would build correctly within their > repository? > > The more people that contribute to things like RPMForge the stronger > it will become. And since RPMForge and centos work very closely, > you're helping us out as well. Thanks Jim, I understand perfectly, and I'll send what I have toward RPMForge and see what they have to say about it. It's something that can be done very easily, thanks for the pointer! Sincerely, Alex