Linux RPM out of date

[Kai Meyer]

On 04/12/2011 05:22 PM, Kai Meyer wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 10:47 AM, Kai Meyer wrote:
>> I've been waiting patiently for the Linux RPM to be updated (it's
>> currently 2.051). Do I need to continue to wait, or should I volunteer
>> some time to help maintain the RPM packaging? I would be happy to help
>> develop and maintain a DEB package as well.
>>
>> -Kai Meyer
>
> This source RPM uses the .zip source distributions from git.
>
> http://kai.gnukai.com/rpms/dmd-2.052-0.i386.rpm
> http://kai.gnukai.com/rpms/dmd-2.052-0.src.rpm
>
> I've tested on my Fedora 14 box, and everything appears to be working
> fine. With out the source rpm that built the one on that's available on
> the website, I've tried to extrapolate what I could about where things
> should go, and what should be included. I tried to error on the side of
> including too much.
>
> I have not tried to build on CentOS, and I have stripped out all the RPM
> dependencies to make installation a little simpler. I hope you can
> resolve the dependancies yourself.
>
> I started with the spec file that's in the "installer" repo, but kept
> very little of it. One portion was the alien stuff in the post commands.
> I don't think that's the place it belongs, but it's just sitting there
> commented out for interested individuals.
>
> I'm interested in making this better, so feedback please :)


P.S.

When building on a x64 machine, please add --target i386 to the rpmbuild 
command, ie:
rpmbuild --target i386 -ba dmd.spec

I'll fix that later.