Re: RedHat RPM spec for Hdup 1.6.16

Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:58:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[On 18 Jun, @11:40, Anders wrote in "[hdup-dev] RedHat RPM spec for ..."]
> 
> Here is a spec file to build a RPM for RedHat,
> that you might want to add to the distribution ?

very nice. I will add this to the hdup release.

> 1)
> It would be easier if the dist tarball was named
> as hdup-1.6.16.tar.gz with a "hdup-1.6.16" inside...
> (for now, I've just moved it down from "hdup16")

well, you already have a fix for it, so I think I
will just leave it this way. 

> 2)
> The standard installation dir on RedHat would
> be in /usr/sbin, but I've kept /usr/local/sbin
> to avoid any confusion with other platforms ?

debian also installs it in /usr/sbin, so I don't see
any problems with it. 

> 3)
> I've just added a completely empty hdup.conf,
> it could be nice to provide a commented variant
> (just state the defaults, all # commented out) ?

There are a lot of defaults :) But it is a good idea
to make a config which has some documentation in ot.

> The man pages and documentation are added, too.
> Tested on Red Hat Linux 7.2, regular i386 platform.
> 
> 
> Thanks for a nice-looking program,
> --anders
> 
> PS. Is the tar version requirement alright ?

yes. Btw does a mcrypt rpm now exist for RH?


Thanks for the spec file,

grtz Miek