On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Dear Linuxers, > > I'm struggling here with some SPEC files here to recreate some RPMS for the > upcoming RedHat 8.0 (boy, this is either a laughing version or a crying one - > when I compile aRTs I get "virtual exhausted memory" although I got 512MB > RAM, 1GB swap, and everything is free and swap is on, or something funny - > there is no MP3 support in RH 8.0 at all! not in Noatun, xmms, xine, etc.. > add to that the fact that the RPM version now is .. 4.1.0, and it's now have > GLIBC 2.2.9 - which is something like pre 2.3 - so expect lots of headaches, > specially when it comes to binary only modules since the kernel is compiled > only with gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.2.9 which seems like incompatible with 2.2.3) > > So I was thinking - does anyone knows a good (commercial or open source) tool > which knows how to create complex spec files? with all the stuff like pre and > post install stages, relocatable RPMS, and the other "neat" stuff)..
There is a nice emacs mode for rpms file. I tend to believe that redhat already ship it with their (gnu|x)emacs. pre, post, etc. is a matter of adding the proper section, and jumping to it, when necessary. Something that I sorely miss is a good rpm reference. The Maximum RPM book (available online) is a good reference to most of the features of rpm. But it is only up-to-date to RPM 2.5 I can only experiment with my machine to get a package that will work on it. And if I want something that will work on several machines/versions/distros: I have to do good guesswork. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
