Linux RPM out of date

Kai Meyer kai at unixlords.com
Wed Apr 13 07:03:40 PDT 2011


On 04/12/2011 07:00 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> Kai Meyer Wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well you aren't supposed to distribute the RPMs yourself, license doesn't allow for that.

Ok, how should I go about this then?

-Kai Meyer


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