He was replying to me. I got stuck at the point of "just grab the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs." I don't know how to do that.
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 11:05, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:58 am, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > > It seems that the rpm provided in abisource.com is only for Redhat > > 8.0. I compiled from source abiword for Redhat 7.3. Is there an easy > > way to make and rpm distribution for this? > > The following is the quote of a response Dom Lachowicz sent to someone > else on the same subject a few weeks ago (hmm, maybe I should add this > to the FAQ -- let me know if these instructions are sufficient of if > something else should be added): > > <quote> > Actually, all you need to know how to use is rpm if > you want to be technical. There's no special version > of the sources needed to run on Mandrake. Just grab > the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs, a recent AbiWord > tarball, and then: > > rpmbuild -bb <tarball> > or > rpm -bb <tarball> > > Depending on your version of RPM (4.x vs. 3.x). Yes, > it really is that simple. When you're done, email this > list or me personally with a link to your RPM and > we'll gladly upload it to SourceForge.net along with > the rest of our binaries. > > Regards, > Dom > </quote> > > Randy Kramer > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. -- Rob Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Global DataGuard, Inc. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
