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requires me to know how much experience you have with the whole RPM
paradigm. 'How is the RPM built?' is a multifaceted question. The
obvious simple answer is that I maintain:
1.) A set of patches to make certain portions of the source tree
'behave' in the different environment of the RPMset;
2.) The initscript;
3.) Any other ancilliary scripts and files;
4.) A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document both
the differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the differences,
as well as useful RPM environment operations (like, using syslog,
upgrading, getting postmaster to start at OS boot, etc);
5.) The spec file that throws it all together. This is not a trivial
undertaking in a package of this size.
1. A set of patches to make certain portions of the source tree
'behave' in the different environment of the RPMset;
2. 2.) The initscript;
3. 3.) Any other ancilliary scripts and files;
4. 4.) A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document
both the differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the
differences, as well as useful RPM environment operations (like,
using syslog, upgrading, getting postmaster to start at OS boot,
etc);
5. 5.) The spec file that throws it all together. This is not a
trivial undertaking in a package of this size.
I then download and build on as many different canonical distributions
as I can -- currently I am able to build on Red Hat 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1
on my personal hardware. Occasionally I receive opportunity from

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<LI>A set of patches to make certain portions of the source tree
'behave' in the different environment of the RPMset;</LI>
<LI>2.) The initscript;</LI>
<LI>The initscript;</LI>
<LI>3.) Any other ancilliary scripts and files;</LI>
<LI>Any other ancilliary scripts and files;</LI>
<LI>4.) A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document
<LI>A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document
both the differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the
differences, as well as useful RPM environment operations (like,
using syslog, upgrading, getting postmaster to start at OS boot,
etc);</LI>
<LI>5.) The spec file that throws it all together. This is not a
<LI>The spec file that throws it all together. This is not a
trivial undertaking in a package of this size.</LI>
</OL>