Building RPMs question

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> Need help with building RPM packages. Here's my problem:
> 
> Previously, I used Apache RPMs from FalseHope, created by Henri Gomez. 
> They're actually pretty good, but because of a bug in Apache 2.0.47, and 
> the impending deployment of a web service I'm working on, I need the 
> latest 2.0.48 version. I can get the latest from Fedora Core updates, 
> but personally, I don't trust Red Hat's versions of Apache.
> 
> I can get the tarballs and compile it, but I need an RPM package  
> because someone else is going to maintain the server after I finish 
> setting it up. So, I was wondering how I could build an RPM package 
> specifically for Apache. I've been googling last night to search for 
> tutorials on RPMs, but so far, the docs are either too old (RPM v3.x 
> mostly), or for other distributions. Ideally, if there's a web tutorial 
> on building RPMs, that would be great !
> 
> So, my question is : does anybody know of any good resources for 
> building rpm packages?

My reply is a bit late, but I hope the link is worth it:
http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/
Matthias Saou is the maintainer of the really valuable freshrpms site.
Klaus