Re: [SLE] samba 3.0 spec?

js <fyrbrds@netscape.net> [Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:00:31 +0200]:

If you don't get a spec, try installing with checkinstall. It will compile and build the rpm for you even without a spec file.

Specially for something like samba I'd stay as far away as possible from checkinstall. Checkinstall won't split up the package into sub packages, least of all sub packages matching those on the distribution and it also won't set all provides/requires that the SuSE packages have. <soapbox> checkinstall is a huge cluge that shouldn't have been written in the first place and that should be avoided by any means. Learn to write spec files and how to create your own RPMs, it's *much* more rewarding! </soapbox> Philipp