Munzir Taha wrote: > Elzubeir, may be you are familiar with debian's inconvienient I find it rather suitable actually -- but some distro's prefer convenience over quality *cough*remindsmeofwindows*cough* ;) > multi-files source packages. In rpm-based distros, the srpm contains > the spec file inside it so every one can download it to get the spec > file. easy? Besides you can have more than one patch in srpms not like > in Debian ;) Yes, but what does that have to do with what I have asked? As a courtesy to the upstream author of any package, I would let that author know that I am packaging his/her project and provide him/her with the source of the packaging file(s). This is not really just an Arabeyes thing, but a general thing. In the future, when you want to package it, you simply checkout what's in CVS and you go -- be it a one file spec or a collection of scripts and files. It's also nice for the upstream author to be able to tell the rest of the world whether his/her package is available in a given distro's repository or else provide the package for download (if available). Regards, Mohammed Elzubeir
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