Re: RPM for gnome-libs 1.0.54?

[Judith Samson <judith samson usaserve net>]

Raul Acevedo wrote:
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> In this issue, the most I can volunteer is the following suggestion, which
> is I think all that is needed: when GNOME puts out tarballs, make a brief
> mention to the ability to convert them to RPM, for those that use RPM, with
> the rpm command.  Then you can either say "rpm -ta", or point them to the
> man page.  That's all it takes.
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I'll volunteer  to write an FAQ on how to convert tarballs to rpms, but
I'll need some merciless technical commentary to make sure that I've got
it right.  Will post in a couple of weeks.