On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:
> First, I have no idea what the general email address is for the mailing
> list.
gensrc@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Second, this is a great package.
thanks! There have been roughly 100 downloads in the first month
since releasing gensrc, but as far as I know, you're the first to
actually join the mailing list.
>
> Third. I have a script here that was build in cooperation with an
> existing script, that downloads packages from an interal ftp server,
> builds them and installs them via tar. It uses configure/make/make
> install
>
> nothing special, but according to your pkginformation, i could build an
> rpm with this.
>
> How would I go about doing this. I didn't see much in the FAQ, and I
> don't know how to contact the list.
Use gensrc to generate your initial source tree, e.g.
# gensrc somepackagename
This creates a directory called somepackagename. Now, to build an RPM for
somepackagename, do this:
# cd somepackagename
# ./Makepkgs
You need to read the Porting-Guild (found in the top level dir of
all generated src trees). Then take a browse around the src, and fairly
quickly you'll figure out how to plug in your source and build your
real RPMs.
thanks
-- Mark Goodwin
SGI Engineering
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