Re: [[gtkmm] RPM .spec files]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

I believe that 3rd-party RPMs cause almost nothing but trouble due to a lack
of discipline about how people set up their systems. I also believe that there
should be only 1 definitive RPM of each package on any given distro - and my
experience is that no 3rd party is willing to maintain an RPM for all future
versions.

I think it's best to lobby distros, such as RedHat, to produce RPMs
officially. 

Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca> wrote:
> I notice that there are no RPM .spec files in the source tarballs
> for the GNOME 2 related libraries.
> 
> Are the maintainers willing to include a .spec.in file in
> the CVS server and to distribute the generated .spec file in
> the source tarballs?  This would allow a user to say 'rpm -tb
> gtkmm-1.3.23.tar.gz', for example, to produce binary RPMs.
> 
> I would be willing to provide this .spec.in file.  It would be
> as simple as possible.  The compilation command would be this:
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=%{prefix} --disable-static && make
> 
> I could also help maintain this file as needed.
> 
> -- 
> Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip @ sympatico . ca>
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Murray Cumming
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