Re: [RP] FreeBSD ports collection fragment and RPM .spec

[Gergely Nagy]

Thus spoke shawn <address@hidden> on 2001-01-17 16:55:36:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I was thinking about writing up a Makefile and some other files
> >for ratpoison that could be put to /usr/ports/x11-wm/ratpoison
> >on FreeBSD 4.x (maybe CURRENT, but I'm not finished with my
> >upgrade yet), that is, it could be made a port. Then we only
> >have to submit it to the FreeBSD folks (that's the tricky thing
> >as I couldn't find it in the docs yet).
> 
> This sounds cool! I've had the thot of installing freeBSD in the back
> of my mind for some time now...


It's worth it. It's great. (/me loves cvsupping ;)

> 
> 
> >
> >Another thing I could do is an RPM .spec if anyone is interested,
> >however, I don't have a RedHat system around, so I can't test
> >how it installs (testing how it builds is no problem).
> 
> Well, an RPM would probably increase circulation. I tried to write one
> once, but it didn't work and I didn't care enough to find out
> why...What about using alien to convert the debian package to an RPM?
> 


Err... I guess a native .spec would be better...


Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8]
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