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pkgbuild-0.1

UPDATED 5-5-2000

        pkgbuild is a graphical development environment for RedHat's RPM. It is
        designed to allow easy building and testing of RPM SPEC files.  This is 
        in the hope that more people will build and distribute quality RPMs.  
        If your new to RPM it is important to note, you don't have to write an
        application to package it.  You can package and redistribute any free
        software.       

NOTE

        Please read the NOTSUPPORTED and TODO files to view the tags and 
        functions not supported in pkgbuild.  This is IMPORTANT!  If you load 
        a SPEC file that contains tags pkgbuild does not understand it will 
        ignore them.  If you then save over the original those tags will no 
        longer be in the SPEC file.  

INSTALLATION

pkgbuild requires the FOX (GPL) class library to compile. you can get the FOX library at ftp://cyberia.cfdrc.com/pub/. I have also included the binary file in case you'd like to just start using it.

To build and install pkgbuild, follow these steps:

1. Unpack the pkgbuild package.
2. If necessary, edit the Makefile so that it fits your system.
3. Type "make" to build the binary.
4. Copy pkgbuild to your favorite binary directory such as

   /usr/local/bin

5. You may need this:

   cd /usr/lib ln -s rpm/rpmrc ./rpmrc ln -s rpm/rpmpopt ./rpmpopt

6. You may also want to make sure your running the latest version of

   rpm;

7. Copy the .groups and .newspec.spec files to you $HOME directory.

COPYRIGHTS

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        trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat Software, Inc. in the United
        States and other countries. 

        Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. 
        
        All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 

CONTACTS

        Davin S. Hills
        http://www.users.uswest.net/~dshills
        dshills@uswest.net