Hi,
I have written a small howto for packagement. You can view it at
http://www.ShahMicro.com/guides/PackageManagement-HOWTO.txt
Your inputs and feedback is highly appreciated.
Devendra Gera and Amit Upadhyay have offered some input/content. Both of you can have a look at the document and can send your content ASAP. TIA.
With warm regards,
Dinesh Shah wrote:
Hi,
I have written a small howto for packagement. You can view it at
http://www.ShahMicro.com/guides/PackageManagement-HOWTO.txt
Your inputs and feedback is highly appreciated.
Here's the HTML version of the HOWTO:
http://www.codemartial.org/PackageManagement-HOWTO.html
It's a copy-paste from the plain-text thing with a little more formatting added but I suggest that you write it in LaTeX or something for the final version :) Oh, and copy it to your site ASAP coz I'll remove it in a day or two!
Two suggestions:
1) The section heirarchy in 5 has become too deep. Consider removing "5. Various Package Management Systems" and elevating all subsections one level up.
2) You may also mention that RPMs can be created from source tarballs that contain the spec.in file.
$ tar -tf tarball.tar.gz | grep spec.in spec.in $ rpmbuild -tb tarball.tar.gz
If the build is successful, you get an RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch>/, where arch is your architecture like i386 or i686. You may also mention that the architecture can be forced using the --target option. The only reason why I touch SRPMs or tarballs is so that I can specify --target=i686 :D
Hi Tahir,
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:30:21AM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Here's the HTML version of the HOWTO:
thx for your help...
It's a copy-paste from the plain-text thing with a little more formatting added but I suggest that you write it in LaTeX or something for the final version :) Oh, and copy it to your site ASAP coz I'll remove it in a day or two!
I have to learn SGML/TeX. It's seems this is the time and oppertunity. Thx for ur suggetion.
Two suggestions:
- The section heirarchy in 5 has become too deep. Consider removing
"5. Various Package Management Systems" and elevating all subsections one level up.
yes... Original draft had diff section numbering, then thought otherwise. time again to change to old section numbering.
- You may also mention that RPMs can be created from source tarballs
that contain the spec.in file.
$ tar -tf tarball.tar.gz | grep spec.in spec.in $ rpmbuild -tb tarball.tar.gz
Ok... Will put this in the howto.
If the build is successful, you get an RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch>/, where arch is your architecture like i386 or i686. You may also mention that the architecture can be forced using the --target option. The only reason why I touch SRPMs or tarballs is so that I can specify --target=i686 :D
With regards, PS: Sthitaprajna has provided valuable input for Portage Package Management for Gentoo. The next version will carry this update. So stay tuned.
With regards,
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dinesh＠shahmicro.com -
Tahir Hashmi