Re: Suggestion: put .rpm & .deb packacking scripts in CVS

[Peter Petrakis <peterpan wn net>]

That would be perfect! No more aclocal crap and such. Especially for
newbees.

Richard Browne wrote:
> 
> Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Gleef wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know about DEBs, but the only part of making an RPM that takes
> > > thought is the spec file.  All of the main GNOME packages include this
> > > spec file in their toplevel directory.  Most of them have a debian
> > > directory as well, so I think debs are probably covered too.
> >
> > That said, it would be nice if 'deb' and 'rpm' were top-level make
> > targets, as well as FreeBSD's /usr/ports.  Are patches to accomplish
> > this welcome?
> 
> Even simpler perhaps, a script that does everything, including running
> configure before making all the sub-packages. This means a newbie can untar
> the files, run a single script, and have it all just happen. ?
> 
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