On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 10:15, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: > I am currently running SuSE Linux SLES8 SP03 in a Linux LPAR. I am > currently running Zebra that was package with SuSE Linux and wish to > upgrade or replace it with the latest release of Quagga. SuSE does not > have a Quagga RPM or SRPM. I am a newbe and have the following questions: > > Is their a preferred site for obtaining the latest release of Quagga?
http://www.quagga.net/ > Should I download the source tarball and simply compile it using > configure, make, and make install? That's what I'd do. > Should I create an SRPM and then RPM from the source tarball? If so, where > do I start? That would be very nice of you. You'd start with the Maximum RPM book at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ but be careful: it's easy to go down this slope and become "the guy that packages Quagga for SLES8 on 390 and zSeries." Then you start accepting bug reports and before you know it you're a project maintainer. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
