On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:24:18PM -0800, David Rees wrote:
> Yes, I figured as much. Thanks for the tip. Sure I can't talk you
> into branching xz for EL-4? :-)
Nope, but I'll be happy to act as your sponsor! You can start learning
about packaging rpms by looking at the srpm and I'll walk you through the
two building steps to change the EL-5 package to use a tar.gz tarball, and
then change it back to tar.xz afterwards.
If you're on
IRC.freenode.net, I can help you in real-time (although not so
much in the next two weeks -- I'll mostly be away at pycon those weeks).
If you're interested, let me know.
I've done a bit of packaging on my own systems so I have a bit of
knowledge about building / maintaining RPMs - should I just go ahead
and build a .spec and .src.rpm with the .gz src and submit a Package
Review Request and let you know so you can sponsor me?
Or do I just need to build the .gz version to bootstrap my EL-4 system
and then verify that that .xz version builds afterwards and submit
that? How do the build systems handle that chicken and egg problem?
-Dave