Re: [e-users] [OT] Gentoo->rpm building

[Didier C. <did...@sp...>]

On 29/06/04, at 12:18 -0700, Shish <shi...@ya...> wrote:
> [...]
> > RPM, grrr
>
> portage seems much easier to hack / fix than RPM - eg, Rather than wait for a
> new .rpm to be released, you can download the current source tarball, and just
> change the checksums in the portage database.
>[...]

Depends on the people. RPMS are not that difficult to build. I normally
take source autoconf/automake packages and convert them to rpm.
There's a more or less straightforward recipe to do that. Well when
you're use to it it takes 5 minutes to do that.

So with rpms, I can track better which files are in my system and where.
:-)

So RPMS are not that much of a headache.




With kind regards,

Didier.

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