[Xastir] Xastir RPM's

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Wed Apr 2 14:50:40 EST 2003


On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Chuck Milam wrote:

> Many people are comfortable with RPMs and are not comfortable with
> building and installing from source.  I personally prefer the RPMS, because
> it allows me to keep the cruft down on my system.  RPM allows me to know
> exactly what package owns a file I come across, for example.
>
> How about a compromise?  Include an RPM spec file in the Xastir tarballs
> and CVS source so those that wish to build their own RPMs can do so, using
> the "rpmbuild" tricks.

I think one's already in there.  At last check it still worked, but
that was before all the configure changes.  Might still work though.

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