[leafnode-list] Re: Leafnode 1.9.25.rel

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

William Hooper schrieb am Freitag, den 30. August 2002:

> I just fought the man page issue a couple of weeks ago with Perl.  Though
> it's usually a bigger problem with binary RPMS, there are always the
> differences differences between SuSE, Mandrake, and Redhat RPMs (still
> waiting for the LSB to fix things like this!) to consider.

Red Hat need to pick up /usr/share/man in the first place :-)

> > 2. One ALWAYS ends up downloading the wrong tarball for .spec: getting
> >    the tar.bz2, you figure the .spec file mentions .tar.gz, and vice
> >    versa. Probably some obscure Murphy's law reference buried in here.
> >
> >    I'd wished that one could tell RPM to try .bz2 if the .gz is not
> >    there at least in rpm -tX mode.
 
> After trying to find docs on this I can begin to understand your pain.  I am
> just being selfish and taking from my experience with the "devel" .bz2
> versions that I have to change to .gz.

Indeed, and my .spec.in file in CVS is now switched to .bz2, and has
also been updated to reflect that leafnode is on sourceforge.net
(download and announce-mailing list for now).

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