See src/platforms/contrib-rpm in the source package. On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 19:08 -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > Thanks Scott! > > Understood about making it easier on the users and I commend that. In > that spirit, it's actually pretty hard to build anyway since it needs > specific choices made up front about what platform and database. A > very nice approach I have seen to this is to have a script that > generates a spec file based on environment variables set. To see > this in action, check out Simon Mudd's excellent postfix rpms. > > http://postfix.wl0.org/en/building-rpms/ > > I suspect this appraoch would also make the spec file simpler while > making building them easier for the user at the same time. > > hth > charles > > On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Scott Barninger wrote: > > > > The reason I go to the effort is for the users who download the > > package. > > If you don't take the time to research and require the specific > > package > > names (which vary by distribution often) then the user just gets a > > very > > unhelpful message stating that libSomeProgram.so.2 is required which > > prompts a message to the lists asking where to get that. Same with > > people who want to rebuild the source rpm and write because of compile > > errors due to missing packages. >
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