January 8, 1997 Copyright (C) John H Terpstra - 1997 Subject: ======== Preparation of RedHat RPM packages. Process: ======== 1. Copy the official Samba-latest.tar.gz archive to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES 2. Un-gnuzip the file to the plain tar archive format 3. Untar the archive to access the samba/examples/redhat files 4. Copy the samba-make.patch file to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES 5. Copy samba-RHXXX.spec file to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS Note: Use the XXX that is your RedHat Linux Version Number 6. Delete the extracted archive (see item 3) 7. Go to the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory 8. Execute: rpm -ba -v samba-RHxxx.spec 9. Copy the SRPM file from the /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS directory and copy the RPMS file from the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS directory to the distribution point from which the finished packages will be uploaded to the samba ftp archive. Finito!!