Re: [Bacula-users] Packaging bacula
2008-06-06 13:58:16
>Usually, Centos 5 rpms are available in SourceForge. I saw somewhere a note
>that for now the newest 2.4.0 rpms are in hold, waiting until the
>responsible person (Scott?) returns from vacation. I got an idea they could
>be expected around the June 16th.
>AFAIK, the actual job "requiring brains" is fine-tuning the rpm spec file
>for the new release, and putting everything into source rpm.
>Basically, writing the spec file is like developing an algorithm and writing
>the code to implement it, so there are no simple instructions how to do it.
>After that, building the binary packages is relatively straightforward work
>mostly requiring digital muscles (a.k.a cpu time) -as long as the packages
>build as expected (without build-time errors, which would lead back to
>fine-tuning the spec file or even worse, the source code)
I am more looking for it so I can make a yum managed client only rpm (includes
the proper director definition etc) so that I can stick it on our updates
mirror and greatly simplify management. I guess I will look and see if any
source rpms are available and try to customize those.
Blake
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