Re: RPM builder

[Andreas Pour <pour@mieterra.com>]

Donovan Rebbechi wrote:

> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Doug Loss wrote:
>
> > This is a program that supposedly easily creates rpms from tar.gz
> > files.  I don't know anything about it more than can be found on this
> > webpage, but it might be worth looking into if it makes generating rpms
> > easier (not that it's all that difficult now).
>
> generating RPMs involves building them from the source ( if available ),
> so the program doesn't help us very much.
>
> However, idea of the program is still quite interesting ... ( for example,
> what if there was a more complete specfile configurator ? that'd be
> interesting. )

I have made one, I will release it in the next few weeks.  It helps quite a
bit with installation scripts, etc.  Will keep improving it, but as a start
it is more powerful than the advertised one.

Regards,

Andreas Pour