Call for developers: rpmbuilder

Michel Salim michel.sylvan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 18:35:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Pierre-Yves <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
> Chris Evich wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hopefully this is the right mailing list :)
>>
>> Project rpmbuilder aims to provide a template-based approach to packaging.
>>  In
>> other words, it removes responsibility from developer to produce an RPM
>> spec
>> file the "right" way.  Instead, the package developer just feeds in his
>> project's particulars, and a template-driven engine puts the pieces
>> together
>> and spits out a "sane" RPM and SRPM.
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/rpmbuilder
>>
>> Given the recent discussions on dependency management, perhaps there is
>> some
>> interest in helping me develop this tool further.  There's no mailing list
>> yet, so if interested, please contact me directly.  Thanks!
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for late reaction, but I have the feeling that your tool is quite
> close to what I have been working on recently:
> https://fedorahosted.org/r2spec/
>
> But R2spec is oriented for R libraries whether your is general, maybe there
> would be a way to integrate them...
>
There's also Brian O'Sullivan's cabal2rpm for Haskell cabal packages.

Regards,

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