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Re: Willing to help with RPM Packaging



On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:57:58PM +0800, Abu Bakar Al-Idrus wrote:
> Assalam `alaykum and hello to all
> 
> 
> My name is Abu Bakar. I am an Arab born and raised in Malaysia. I am pretty new to Arabeyes and I am 
> only just beginning to experiment a little bit with some of the software available here. I may not be 
> able to contribute very much in terms of translation (since my Arabic is terrible), but I may be able 
> to help a little bit where bug-hunting and testing is concerned. However, my main interest is in 
> packaging some of the applications from the Arabeyes project in RPM format. At the moment, I am using 
> Red Hat Linux 9 with Ximian Desktop 2 installed.

Salam Abu Bakar,

First of all, welcome aboard! It is so nice to see people who say and
then actually _do_ what they say they will do (believe it or not, that
is a rarity).

> 
> [..]
> 
> 
> Meanwhile, you can take a look at the RPM packages I have made of libquran and gnomequran at the 
> following links:
> 
> 
> http://alidrus.mlcc.com.my/RPMS (binary RPMs)
> 
> 
> http://alidrus.mlcc.com.my/SRPM (source RPMs)
> 

I am not a RH user (or use any distro that is RPM based).. but I trust
that the many RH/Mdk users will start playing with your package.

Creating RPM's for the software is not the end ;) You probably also want
to start harassing the RH folks (via their acceptable means, bug
reporting, etc.) to have them include it in RH proper. Then we would
have reached our goal.. to have Arabeyes software in standard
distributions.

Again, I salute your work! Keep it up!

Regards
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