On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Steven Haigh wrote: > Does anyone have a howto or similar on building spec files? The cannonical place to look wuld be http://www.rpm.org/ The classic text (a book from 2000) is Maximum RPM, available online at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ - there is/was also a pdf and TeX source availabnle somewhere. While it is out of date in places this is still what I use when writing spec files. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna