Re: RPM for gnome-libs 1.0.54?

["Mark M. Wilson" <mmwilson ncsl dcr state nc us>]

Or you can download it in PostScript form for free; I think on the
www.redhat.com website in the documentation area.
--Mark M. Wilson

Keith Wright wrote:
> 
> > From: Raul Acevedo <raul@cantara.com>
> >
> > Zach Frey wrote:
> >
> >  >     rpm -ta <tarball>.tar.gz
> >  >
> >  > This should generate the source RPM, plus all binary RPMs.
> >
> > If this is all it takes to generate binary RPMs, then why:
> 
> Oh, this is silly.  Zach coded up a simple-to-use procedure,
> that doesn't imply that it was simple to code.
> 
> If you want real simple, what's wrong with (./configure; make)?
> 
> > 1.  Does GNOME not *always* provide RPMs for every tarball release, given
> >     that it's so simple?
> 
> That command doesn't work on _any_ tarball, just on one that contains
> a tar'ed and gzip'ed RPM spec file.  Somebody has to make that spec file.
> 
> > 2.  Isn't this information on generating RPMs from the tarball given
> >     someplace really obvious and easy to find?
> 
> This is just an RPM command with the build-from-zip'ed option.
> It's not up to the Gnome programmers to document rpm.
> Start with 'man rpm', if that doesn't do it RedHat sells a
> book called 'Maximum RPM'.
> 
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