-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Angel Gabriel wrote: > I just wanted to find out if this is possible?
Possible, sure. Worthwhile, maybe. Depends on how many systems you have to push out mailman installs to and how much you like using rpm to manage your files. > I want to download the latest source code for mailman, compile it, and > then turn it into an RPM, so that I can install and remove it when > neccessary. How would I go about doing this? Have you ever built rpm's before? If not, check some of the the docs on rpm.org[1] for a starting point. The other thing that's useful is checking out someone else's source rpm to get an idea of what they had to do to get things installed properly. There is a redhat rpm in rawhide for 2.1.2 that might get you started. I haven't looked at it though, so I don't know what it's like. I've created rpms for my own systems since back in the 2.0.something days, mainly so that I could get things working with postfix better out of the box and so I could apply a few minor cosmetic tweaks to the code. I don't think it'll be very useful, but I did put the spec file and other source files on the web a while back for someone else's reference. Feel free to take a peek at that, but don't complain to me if they don't work (though if you let me know of a problem in them I'll fix it if it affects my systems). http://pobox.com/~tmz/RPMS/ IMO, Mailman is one of those packages that's harder to make an rpm of than it is to just install from source, so weigh carefully your need/desire to have an rpm. I mostly started building the one's I've built just for the hell of it. I really had no pressing need for them, though it does save me a little time futzing with config files after the install. YMMV. [1] http://rpm.org/howto/ One thing that's worth noting, in case it's not covered prominently in any of the HOWTO's: don't build your rpm's as root! You're asking for trouble if you do, since part of the build process does a make install and if you're root, you can easily overwrite your working install with a test build if you're not careful. It's much better to use a regular user account for building, even though that sometimes has issues with some packages. - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ============================================================================ Left to Her own devices, nature cures stupidity. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iD8DBQE/LnQpuv+09NZUB1oRAmmqAKDKywKAFuKip/MxQnrhG7QU2VFwQQCfV3bT VRvo+tibiYtO0BF+l6W0z9k= =bpuX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org