Re: 7.1.2 packaging

Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:

> On Monday 04 June 2001 10:56, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> > > On Sunday 03 June 2001 13:05, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > > > "Tim Mickol" <tmickol(at)combimatrix(dot)com> writes:
> > > > > any word on 7.1.2 in RPM or SRPM form?
> > > > An SRPM can be found at http://people.redhat.com/teg/pg/
>
> > > NOTE:
> > > While Trond's SRPM is very good (and will be used for pieces in the PGDG
> > > SRPM release), do note that Trond's scripts and spec file both use
> > > features of latest RedHat releases, which my RPM's may or may not use.
>
> > There shouldn't bee much there which is Red Hat specific...
> > There is comments on the top of the file which break some early
> > versions of rpm v3 (newer versions of RPM should be run on all
> > supported versions of Red Hat Linux anyway). Other than that,
> > reference to Red Hat specific files (like /etc/sysconfig/i18n) are
> > conditional.
>
> In the initscript the use of gettext()?

This isn't called directly.

> The use of the Red Hat init functions success and kin?

OK, these can be found on more than Red Hat Linux. There are also some
attempts at workarounds for other distributions.

> At one point the spec file wouldn't build to completion on Red Hat 6.1 --
> which, at the time, I was supporting, due to the use of a libtool fileset
> that didn't exist in 6.1.

This has been fixed...

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.