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« on: February 27, 2018, 02:41:52 pm »
Hi Martin,
Please don't think I'm decrying you effort to find out how to build RPM files - learning something new is always good although at 78 I find that sometimes the old ways that still work are better.
There are points for and against all automated install systems the worst one being when the 'latest and greatest' kills the 'tried and tested' because the new updated a dll that the old required, that is when the 'fun' begins tracking down the problem. At least with a zip file it is easy to see what is there, not so with an rpm on a standard OS/2 v4.52 install.
It is not just with the rpm packages that we have appearing for OS/2 it happens with Linux as well. There it is a case of will the rpm that I have found work with the version of Linux I have, PCLinuxOS, or should I use the RHEL rpm or the SUSE rpm if there is one available?