Good idea, (except i dislike bzip .. maybe when it's standard with more
distro's...) you can even use:
$ rpm -tb package.tar.gz
according to the man page, this will specify that "RPM should look inside of
a gzipped (or compressed) tar file for the spec file to use."
I've used this before and it works a treat :)
Warm Regards,
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From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 10:53 AM
Subject: Suggestion for distribution of source file packages.
> Hi all,
>
> I have a suggestion:
>
> I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce
> duplication, distribute the source files in .tar.gz or .tar.bz2
> format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and
> debian source files.
>
> Included in these tarballs add .spec and/or .dsc files together with
> the original .tar.gz package and .diff.gz files. Then everybody
> interested can build source/binary files for their own preferred
> distribution using the same source files!!
>
> Another issue is to merge the binary file formats .deb and .rpm :(
>
> This mail is sent to the lists I'm subscribing to. I'm currently
> running Rawhide-19991117, Redhat 6.1, Debian 2.1, Suse 6.2 and
> Mandrake 6.1 on different computers and disks.
>
> Comments?
>
> Svante Signell
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