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While it is out of date in places this is still what I use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.

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