Introductions

[James Ogley <james usr-local-bin org>]

Hi,

Thought I'd send a quick email to the list, partly by way of
introduction, but also as a ping to see if anything's really happening
with the GPP (the latest news on the site is for GNOME 1.4 packages!).

Anyway, for the last few years I've been running the usr local bin
project, which packages GNOME and GNOME apps for SuSE Linux, it fits
into a broader community of SuSE package providers, but is itself a
one-man operation.  SuSE uses RPM, so that's my particular area of
expertise.

My mind turned to the GPP because I just did some work on Tomboy, adding
the functionality to it's .spec.in file to allow the .spec that results
from auto* to be used with the format rpmbuild -ba --with suse
tomboy.spec to build with SuSE prefix etc as opposed to Red Hat/Fedora
specifications.  Seemed to me that the same rpm-fu could be applied
across the board to GNOME to make it RPM-able on multiple distros
straight out of FTP, any thoughts?

A sidebar would be to also include the equivalent for building .debs if
it isn't already (I'm no Debian expert, so I don't know what that
equivalent is I'm afraid).

[Blog including usr local bin work is at
http://rubberturnip.org.uk/cgi-bin/blog]

James
-- 
James Ogley james usr-local-bin org
GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms