amarok-1.4.7

Made rpms of amarok-1.4.7 on RHEL 4. It was a real pain to get all the dependencies and making correct rpms of them, but all the pain was worth it.

Came to know about rpmbuild --short-circuit while trying to get things working.

After messing around with spec files for the past two days, I think rpm is a solid packaging scheme. The reason why people are crazy about debian packaging scheme (.deb) might be because of the awesome apt-get that is built on top of it. yum seems like an amateur effort next to apt-get.

One nice goodness that I discovered in rpmbuild was when I ran across Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: error.

rpmbuild terminates a build if the RPM_BUILD_ROOT contains files that are not explicitly listed in a %files section of the spec file. See the links for a detailed explanation of this feature.

Links

• rpmbuild --short-circuit option
• Unpackaged files terminate a build