From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Apr 26 09:28:45 2008 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:01:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Tarenskeen X-X-Sender: m.tarenskeen@unknown-00-0d-56-e1-b3-fa.lan To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] RPM's In-Reply-To: <200804261243.39197.edgar.aichinger@aon.at> Message-ID: References: <1209120560.9724.500.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <200804261243.39197.edgar.aichinger@aon.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2008 13:01:11.0295 (UTC) FILETIME=[99D9C8F0:01C8A79D] X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: m.tarenskeen@zonnet.nl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Edgar Aichinger wrote: >> I'm wondering if it makes sense to target Fedora 8's (or 9's) RPM's and >> start to build up from those. Rather than rolling our own. > > I suppose redhat/fedora specs are easier to port than e.g. openSUSE, > which use quite SUSE specific stuff sometimes (macros). Don't know > details on how other distros' rpms differ, but there are quite some > based on RPM, e.g. Mandriva > I think one of the first RPM packages to be updated/ported for such a job should be rpm/rpmbuild itself. -- Martin