New rpm/README file

[Jon Lapham]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:
> 
>>Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>>If you configure the tarball it should "build" a spec file from
>>>the spec.in and fill in the VERSION -- so you shouldn't have to
>>>do that by hand.
>>
>>Hmmm, yes.  So, you recommend running "autogen.sh" after untarring the
>>distribution?  Okay, can do.
> 
> 
> No, you never need to run autogen.sh after untarring the tarball.
> You should run configure.
> 
> 
>>But, it just seems like a long way to walk to replace @-VERSION-@ with
>>the corect version, and removing ".in" from the spec file name.
>>
>>I wonder, would it be possible (desirable?) to do this when building
>>the distibution tarball?  IE: could "make dist" build the gnucash.spec
>>file?
> 
> 
> That might be a reasonable thing to do...
> 

I filed an enhancement bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119446

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