Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> I couldn't find a >> repository that carries a recent version of BackupPC for CentOS 4 and >> I never mastered the art of packaging stuff myself. I tried it, but >> found documentation on creating your own RPM's was contradicting >> other >> documentation on creating your own RPM's > > Admittedly, with RPMs it helps that I work with some people who know > RPM > intimately, and can provide really good advice on best practices.
Yeah, I know of some pretty good 3rd party packagers (Dag, Dries, ART, etc.), but I have the feeling that you have to know someone directly that can teach you, because I never found accurate, up2date and complete docs on packaging. And for the amount of packages that I can't already get packaged (1, BackupPC) I just haven't been able to justify spending time on this. > Once they got to know dpkg and the deb build process tho they were > pretty quick to > abandon RPM. <plugetty plug plug plug> When I started out with Linux Debian just wouldn't boot on my machines. So I went the CentOS-route. Having BackupPC in the official repositories is nice, but not enough to make me switch. :o) Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
