[lug] February 14th talk?

[Riggs, Rob]

RPMS can be built straight from tar.gz archives. That's how I package most
of my software. As long as there is a spec file in the archive, "rpm -ta
foo.tar.gz" will build the foo package binary and source RPMS straight from
the compressed tar file.

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]

"boring", but I personally struggle with packaging issues while trying
to write free software. To me, tar is my friend, it's so *simple*. Yet,
distributing to non-developer types, they get frustrated with tar. A