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Paul Elliott wrote:
> Folklore, like every village has its own version of the story, slightly 
> different
> from every other village's version.

Every single person has its own habits, actually.

> There is plenty of documentation on writing a .spec file on the net, but is 
> scattered
> across 1000 different web sites and mailing list archives. A lot of the 
> documentation
> is obsolete in places.
> You can not go to one place and learn RPM packaging, instead you have to go 
> prospecting
> like an anthropologist to find all the information that seems to be relevant 
> to
> your problem.

1. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/index.html
2. http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/SUSE_Package_Conventions
3. http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy
(in that order)

> Every distro does it approximately the same, with enough differences to drive 
> one
> mad!

Yep.

> Will Linux Standard base or some big documentation writer ever come to save
> the day and bring order to this chaos?

No.

cheers
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  -o) Pascal Bleser     http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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 _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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