Re: [Xlog-discussion] Appology

[Bob Nielsen]

On Apr 16, 2006, at 2:36 AM, Tomi Manninen wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 00:30 -0400, Ben Coleman wrote:
>
> > 3.  This thread gave me a few more tips about building rpms (I  
> > hadn't realized
> > that 'make rpm' was available).
>
> Make rpm is of course only available if the maintainer of a software
> package has implemented that. I'm not sure where I stole the idea  
> from,
> but gmfsk has it. So does xlog and I think at least hamlib and dream.
> Anyway, it's not a standard feature as such.
>
> --
> Tomi Manninen / OH2BNS / KP20JF74

Nonetheless, it is a nice feature which should be encouraged (as is  
having debian/rules in the tarball for building a .deb)--much nicer  
than using checkinstall.

73,
Bob Nielsen, N7XY