mgetty.1.1.19.src.rpm

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I haven't tried building an RPM for mgetty yet, but any changes you make
to the original source tree should be contained in patch files. The
RPM philosophy is to maintain pristine sources (unaltered from the
original tar.gz). Might I recommend the Maximum RPM book, which is
a little outdated, but most of the information is pertinent. It covers
the building of packages and creating/applying patches and such. You=20
can buy it from Red Hat, or you can download the PS (or LaTeX) version
of the book (my preference) from www.rpm.org. BTW, I use vgetty so my
needs may not be the same as yours. Sometime I might get around to
grabbing the latest version and rolling an RPM out of it.

Gert (and Marc), who is typically responsible for building the "official"
RPMs? Is that left to the distribution vendors?

I was deep in meditation when Tom awoke me by saying:
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> I've never built one of these so I'm looking for some reassurance here
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> I was able to make all the i386.rpm and the src.rpm
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> To do this I edited the Makefile at the top of the source tree and the
> Makefile in the viewfax source tree to make the directories and
> executables similar to 1.1.14.
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> I also commented out areas of the .spec file that involved
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> 	logrotate
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> 	and /usr/bin/kvg
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> There were nonexecutables in ./tools (./tools/kvg and ./tools/cutbl) an=
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> the  binary in ./callback ("./callback/callback")  was not installed
> (but "./callback/ct"  was installed)  and I want to
> make sure that my interpretation that these are not part of the usual
> install is correct.
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> Or do I have play with this some more?
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