[Gambas-user] rpmbuild and install package

[Doriano Blengino]

D. L. Fox ha scritto:
> Toni, you are 2 for 2! :-)
>
> Added the link and now I have access to creating all the available 
> packages. Many thanks!
>
> Toni wrote:
>   
>> Hi again,
>> I think that there is no real need for that specific version of tar... 
>> thus a workaround to generate packages for Slackware without having to 
>> downgrade the tar utility would be creating a link named "tar-1.13" to 
>> the installed tar binary in order to fool the (silly) gambas check. 
>> Something like that should do the trick:
>>
>> sudo ln -s /bin/tar /bin/tar-1.13
>>
>> Regards,
>> Toni
>>     
You should then test your package to see if it works. There is a 
specific reason why slackware refuses to use newer versions of tar(1); 
unfortunately I don't remember where it is explained (you can google for 
it), but I do remember it was a good reason.

Regards,
Doriano