[lug] February 14th talk?

Wed Jan 23 19:44:55 MST 2002

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:44:29AM -0700, Riggs, Rob wrote:
>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

Unfortunately, that is far from common...  It's incredibly handy, when it
works though.  For example, with Python it's got a .spec file in there, but
it's hopelessly out of date...  I'm working to fix that though.

Sean
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