From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T00:45:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RPM for 1.8.0 - uninitialized constant CONFIG

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:51, Martin DeMello wrote:
> John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> > 
> >> You can get RPMs of Ruby 1.8 from my Web site:
> >>
> >>   http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
> > 
> > Unfortunately Mandrake 9.1 seems to have diverged too far from RedHat for
> > these to be usable.
> 
> How hard would it be to write a ruby program that generated a set of
> {S,}RPMs from the tarball? (A genuine question - I don't know too much
> about packaging issues).

That's what the .spec file is -- a set of instructions for packaging a
set of sources as an RPM.


Ari