RPM specfiles for commercial packages?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Oct 1 18:06:00 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:03, Warren Togami wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > Commercial software is an evil some of us have to live with and as
> > long as I have no choice I figured I'd try and make it as painless as
> > possible.  So I've been packaging the various commercial software
> > around into Fedora-friendly RPMs so that I can move away from an NFS
> > or rsync-ed /usr/local.  So far I've done Matlab R14sp1, Mathematica
> > 5, the PGI compiler suite and RealPlayer.  (OK, RealPlayer was already
> > an RPM but doing everything in a postinstall script is pretty nasty.)
> > I doubt there up to proper Fedora standards but at least they work.
> > 
> > Is anyone else doing this?  Is there a place where we can exchange
> > specfiles?
> > 
> >  - J<
> > 
> 
> livna?

this really isn't like that.

this isn't software that is only illegal to distribute in certain
countries.

Thie is software that is illegal to distribute ANYWHERE.

-sv





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