Building rpms for FC3 ?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:10:23 -0600, Tom Weeks wrote:

> Q that I didn't see in your Contribs URL (at first glance)..
> 
> If one were to want to build RPMs for submission to the project.. should they 
> only do so against a fresh CD-ROM install.. Or against a fresh install that 
> has just been fully patched? 
> 
> If the former.. I could create a disk based image of my system that I could 
> restore from each time I wanted to do a new build candidate.
> 
> Just curious in what you all see as the "best practices" out there...

You would contribute source RPM packages, not prebuilt binaries.  The
src.rpm should build on an up-to-date Fedora Coreq, as its intended to
run with the latest updates.

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