a look at my spec file for Webmin

[David Smith]

Scott Berry wrote:
> This is from a srpm from www.webmin.com.  Yes it has worked  on Fedora 6.
> The reason I don't follow guidelines is there is no
>  Examples. I tried understanding them but they are a little too in depth for
> beginning users.  The guidelines I do use are found here:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch11s02.html 
> The guidelines need to be geared more towards a beginner if you want more
> packagers.
>   I understand that not everything can be predicted but a good tutorial
> would be in the order for beginners.  I just took the spec file and added
> what the document said to add.  The document given as a link  hasn't been
> updated in two years.
> Scott

Scott,

One of the problems you are having is that you picked a package with 
such a complicated spec file to begin with.  There really aren't too 
many packages that include all the scripts that this one does: %pre, 
%post, %preun, %postun, and %triggerpostun.  From my brief look at the 
spec file it appears to be doing way too much.

You probably need to sit back and think a bit and dramatically simplify 
the spec file.  Contact me off-list if you'd like some help (not that I 
  own any packages but I've hacked on spec files before).

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