Announce: new GRASS 5 beta4 on Tuesday, 26. October

[Eric Mitchell]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > > GRASS 5 beta4 is published under GPL:
> > > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
> 
> Yes, I think we are all quite happy (the Baylor team as well!)
> 
> > BTW, I suppose that there is now a good chance to see Grass included
> > in Linux distributions (Debian, RedHat, Suse, etc...).  Is
> > anybody thinking about some more "end-user" package (i.e. binaries
> > + data + tutorial) ?
> Yes, we consider creating "rpm" packages. Perhaps
> 
>  - one source rpm
>  - one Linux binary rpm
>  - one data rpm
> 
> But: No idea to create such packages (and no time). any volunteer
> to help here?

You can download the book, Maximum RPM, from the www.rpm.org
website.  It's an excellent reference.  You can also grab a
few sample .spec files (they specify how to build the rpm)
and tweak them until it works.  I'll be glad to help answer
questions, but I'm a little busy to do it myself.

> Markus

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