I once tried krpmbuilder (IIRC the name), which is a nice KDE frontend to the SPEC creation and RPM building process. it does support most features of RPM, but not all of them.On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:Dear Linuxers,So I was thinking - does anyone knows a good (commercial or open source) tool which knows how to create complex spec files? with all the stuff like pre and post install stages, relocatable RPMS, and the other "neat" stuff)..There is a nice emacs mode for rpms file. I tend to believe that redhat already ship it with their (gnu|x)emacs.
My self - I write my SPEC files on a syntax highlighted editor (Kate) and use parts of other people's SPEC files when I want to do something which I'm not yet sure how to do.
Supporting anything but your distro is quite impossible if you want to use the neat macros that each distribution supplies, and don't want to go for the lowest denominator or do all the hardwork about guessing architecture, library locations, etc'. my solution is to build RPMs for my distro, and anyone else can grab the SRPM and hack the SPEC file.I can only experiment with my machine to get a package that will work on it. And if I want something that will work on several machines/versions/distros: I have to do good guesswork.
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