[HLUG] Source RPMs

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi Jeff,

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From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jeff Tupholme
Sent: 16 January 2007 08:05
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Source RPMs

>Hi,

>Yes, thanks, that is one option. This is partly an experiment, but I  
>would like to maintain the advantages of using the package manager if  
>possible as I've used that for installing everything else - being  
>able to see what's there, dependency and upgrade tracking and so on.

Let me know how you get on.  It is quite a good project to develop a working
RPM file that does what you need to.  I usually chicken out and revert back
to the source (like last week on a work system, I needed to use a feature in
a later Mutt, but because I don't use the standard MTA in Suse I couldn't
use it since the MTA packages weren't there, even though I know it would
work).  I had it compiled and running in under 5 minutes.

Andrew.


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