On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Istvan Seidel wrote:
Am Dienstag, 9. November 2004 18:53 schrieb Bryce Harrington:
For what it's worth, I used to do the Mandrake rpm builds, but no longer use Mandrake regularly so won't be creating these rpms. If someone else with Mandrake wishes to take this over, I can provide some guidance on how to make rpm's, etc.
I am Mandrake and linux beginner, but i am interested in this.
Cool. I can walk you through the process.
Have you compiled the pre-release? That would be the first step. Download it from the website and get it to compile and install on your machine.
Have you ever created an RPM before? We've documented the process if not. There's several steps but they're each pretty straightforward. Here is the page explaining EVERYTHING about creating dists:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CreatingDists
You actually only need to read the section called "Creating a distribution RPM", about halfway down the page. You can use Method B on a Mandrake system. Also read the section on "Signing your package", because it is a good idea to do that.
Give it a try and let me know if you run into problems.
Why don't you use Mandrake anymore?
I really like Mandrake and still recommend it to people, but a while back I got tired of wrestling with rpm's so switched to Gentoo. Gentoo's a bit more challenging to install, but I find it much easier to maintain and upgrade.
Is incscape in Mandrake 10.1?
I haven't heard if it is, but I don't think anyone's looked into it. It'd be very interesting to hear, but I think we ought to provide Mandrake rpm's for the 0.40 release in any case.
Bryce