[users] No asterisk

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Tue Aug 7 10:23:31 CEST 2007


--On Monday, August 06, 2007 6:42 PM -0400 Dave Miller 
<justdave at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Digium actively recommends people to install from source anyway, to get
> good performance out of it, so that probably discourages people from
> trying to package it.

I tried packaging it a couple years ago. There was a really bad spec file 
included in the tarball that showed no understanding of RPM packaging, but 
I found a pretty good one from a 3rd party and fed back some enhancements.

"Install from source" can be done with RPM: One just needs to build a 
source RPM. Nothing magic about that. The only value in building from 
source instead of using a binary RPM is if custom build options are needed 
for each installation.

I guess I need to see what the current state of upstream packaging is and 
then compare that to the RPMforge guidelines to see what needs to be 
tweaked to make a submission.



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