On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:18:21PM +0100, Nicolas Steinmetz wrote: > > That doesn't tell you how to write a .spec file though. As a first call, > > I'd start googling for them. There are several public RPM repositories out > > there which publish spec files for thousands of packages. > > > > You can grab if from Fedora SRPMS.
Good suggestion. Oh, and I forgot to check EPEL. It looks like you're in luck: there's a reasonably up-to-date couchdb there (0.10) and Erlang (R12B5) and presumably all other necessary dependencies. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Choose between i386 and x86_64, and RHEL4 and RHEL5. These are binary packages so no need to build anything. Copy them to the target machine and rpm -Uvh couchdb*.rpm; if it reports missing dependencies, fetch those too and try again. HTH, Brian.
