I've dabbled in making rpm's from tar distributions a bit -- just
enough to get a flavor of rpm building. One of the more challenging
(frustrating?) rpm tasks is building an rpm for a kernel module. (Or
maybe the tar/make package I'm starting from is just not
well-designed.) Since the build can be kernel-specific, it's not even
clear if building binary rpm's is worth it. Maybe a better idea is to
concentrate on making the source rpm easily buildable so that the end
user can generate an installation-specific binary rpm and get the
benefit of rpm's over tar/make installations. Or, maybe it's not
worth rpm's at all for kernel modules.
Anyone have opinions on this?
TIA,
Bill
