From: Rob Woodard (rwoodard@globaldataguard.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 12:07:36 EST
He was replying to me. I got stuck at the point of "just grab the spec
file out of the RedHat RPMs." I don't know how to do that.
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 11:05, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:58 am, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > Hello,
> > It seems that the rpm provided in abisource.com is only for Redhat
> > 8.0. I compiled from source abiword for Redhat 7.3. Is there an easy
> > way to make and rpm distribution for this?
>
> The following is the quote of a response Dom Lachowicz sent to someone
> else on the same subject a few weeks ago (hmm, maybe I should add this
> to the FAQ -- let me know if these instructions are sufficient of if
> something else should be added):
>
> <quote>
> Actually, all you need to know how to use is rpm if
> you want to be technical. There's no special version
> of the sources needed to run on Mandrake. Just grab
> the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs, a recent AbiWord
> tarball, and then:
>
> rpmbuild -bb <tarball>
> or
> rpm -bb <tarball>
>
> Depending on your version of RPM (4.x vs. 3.x). Yes,
> it really is that simple. When you're done, email this
> list or me personally with a link to your RPM and
> we'll gladly upload it to SourceForge.net along with
> the rest of our binaries.
>
> Regards,
> Dom
> </quote>
>
> Randy Kramer
>
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