Re: Packaging 7.1.1

For various definitions of "Platform".  Linux runs on a NUMBER of 
hardware platforms, and RPM is used by a LOT of LINUX distributions. 

I'd vote for src/rpm-tools/ if I had a vote.

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On 5/4/01, 11:57:05 AM, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote 
regarding Re: [HACKERS] Packaging 7.1.1:


> > Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > > contrib/rpm-dist?
> >
> > Contrib was my first thought also --- but on second thought, the RPM
> > packaging support is hardly contrib-grade material.  For a large
> > proportion of our users it's a critical part of the distribution.
> > So, if we are going to have it in the CVS tree at all, I'd vote for
> > putting it in the main tree.
> >
> > Perhaps src/rpm-tools/ or some such name.

> It is platform-specific, which would seem to vote for /contrib.

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