[Spice-devel] Announcing spice 0.10.0 and spice-protocol 0.10.0

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

>>    Did you set up the tar ball such that "rpmbuild -ta *.tar" will
>> create RPMs?  (I don't see my SL6.1 server till next Tuesday, or I would
>> just download and try myself.)
>>
> 
> no, don't know how to do that (but I'll look now :)
> 
> also, RPM is undefined - fedora/rhel/suse/what-ever-became-of-mandrake
> 
> is there a one-spec-to-rule-them-all way? otherwise I don't think it's
> worth the effort.

It isn't impossible, but tricky, especially when it comes to
dependencies because packages are named differently on various distros.
 And spice has some non-trivial dependencies such as a specific celt
version ...

cheers,
  Gerd