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Re: [cobalt-developers] RPM tools
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RPM tools
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Feb 6 18:42:05 2001
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Appliances
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Mat Schaffer wrote:
>
> does anyone know of any good linux based tools out there for creating
> rpms from a source tarball? rpm does it, but I figure there's just
> gotta be something better out there. At least in alpha stages.
nope - you have to tell RPM what you want in teh package - how you want
it installed, what the description etc is. You have to build a .spec
file.
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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@xxxxxxx