On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Randall Leeds wrote:
> Meebo runs CentOS/Scientific Linux and I've played with the RPM
> packaging for that quite a bit, though I tend to be less up to date on
> that since upgrading is a big production, whereas on my desktop I tend
> to keep more up to date. Happy to help out with that conversation,
> too, though.
Someone showed me an ruby gem called "fpm" which has made things so
much better for anyone doing anything with packaging here.
https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
Basically, if the thing has a fairly standard "make install" type
target (preferably autoconf + configure --prefix), then it will build you a
.deb, .rpm, etc... with the dependency lists and everything else you need with
roughly the same command.
--
dustin sallings
