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As often as this particular thread is repeated, I have yet to see someone give a 5 step approach as to how you can write a spec file and build an rpm in under 10 minutes, which is what I think you are looking for.
Sorry, but that's impossible if you want to do it right. Even I need at least between half an hour and an hour to get a spec file right.
But given how long it takes most distros to implement the latest version of anything, that probably won't happen anytime soon.
Oh, normally we do with every new distro, if there aren't reasons not to upgrade.
Unfortunately, many linux people take the time to learn something then assume that everyone else has that much time on their hands. After it becomes easy to them, they expect everyone else to find it as easy as they do.
No, I don't expect that. But you don't learn to drive a car in one day either. Somehow people always think that complex tasks should be made easy .... Building rpms is a skill you have to learn, but which will pay off handsomely. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas AT suse DOT de SUSE LINUX AG private: philipp DOT thomas AT t-link DOT de