Re: gEDA: Re: gEDA installation / gerbv-0.0.6 rpms

[Wojciech Kazubski <wk-at-NOSPAMire_dot_pw_dot_edu_dot_pl>]

Hi Stefan and all!

Sorry for my delay now. I was on short vacations around the Christmas and New 
Year, thanks for wishes

> I have planned to put the spec file on the gerbv webpage. Is
> it OK? Is there any more information I should add regarding how to build
> with this spec file or is it common knowledge among Red Hatters??

I think that it will be OK to put a specfile on the webpage. It can be even 
included inside the source tarball. Once we have a good specfile, making a 
package is a simple job: place tarball and specfile into the directories 
where rpm expects them and invoke a command

rpm -bb specfile

or 

rpm -tb tarball

if the specfile is included in the tarball. I think that it suficiently 
described in HOWTO-s and mans so there is no need to explain it in more 
than one sentence. More problem is to collect all necessary development 
packages if someone is doing this for a first time, so many Linux users 
search for ready packages. Maybe store rpms for some popular distributions on 
geda server?
I checked that the directory scheme should be compatible with the most of 
current releases that use rpm (some old releases as RedHat up to 6.2 stored 
doc and man files in /usr/doc and /usr/man). 

W. Kazubski