On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:04, Cédric Delfosse wrote:
> Hello
>
> at work, I have played a little bit with a Redhat 9. There are lots of
> nice system setup tools that could be useful for Debian users. These
> tools are GPL.
> The problems are:
> - no source tar.gz / tar.bz2 distribution (AFAIK),
> - no Redhat anonymous CVS access (AFAIK),
> - only SRPM distribution.
>
> So, I wonder if someone has already built a package from a SRPM package
Just use rpm2cpio to extract the source tarballs and any patches.
Note that most of the admin tools have some serious deps... I started
to port their X configuration tools, which requires RH python-x binding,
which requires the Red Hat Python library, which doesn't build on Debian
very well. I started but never finished porting this tool, but I should
try again when the python2.2->2.3 transition is over.
(my debs of these packages are available at www.burtonini.com/debian)
Ross
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