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From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de>
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Subject: Re: bsd.rpm.mk ?
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Hi there,

Arun Sharma wrote:
> I haven't seen much discussion in the archives about using the excellent
> BSD ports system for the source environment and RPM for binary packaging. 
> I hacked up a very basic bsd.rpm.mk if anyone is interested.
> 
well, why using RPM for binary packaging ?!
If to replace the pkg_* featureset of BSD then please replace it with 
apt_* from those Debian guys.
Anyhow. Just my opinion ;-)

best regards,
Marian