Hi,
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Edmunds, Keith wrote:
> As the asker of the original question I appreciate you taking the time to
> explain all of this. However, I think it would be a good idea for SuSE to
> document this.
Building RPMs is already documented in several documents. Just have a look
at the RPM HOWTO or "Maximum RPM" (available in PostScript at
http://www.rpm.org). There is no big difference in building a SuSE RPM,
just have a look at our specfiles (contained in the source RPMS), which
are the "compiling and packaging instructions" for RPM.
We have an SDB article about compiling Source RPMs:
http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ke_source-rpm.html
> It is inevitable that some users will want to upgrade some packages
> (for whatever reason) before SuSE are able to produce their next
> release. Any chance of this happening?
Of course you can still install plain source tar-gz-files, if you are
eager to upgrade some packages. As I mentioned before, most of the times
it is sufficient to adapt the version number in the specfile to build a
new RPM...
Bye,
LenZ
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