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Clean up the rpm creation steps.

svn:r18325
Andrew Lewman 16 years ago
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      doc/tor-rpm-creation.txt

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doc/tor-rpm-creation.txt

@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 ## Instructions for building the official rpms.
 ## Instructions for building the official rpms.
-## 
+##
-These are instructions for building Tor binaries in the rpm format on
+The process used to create the official rpms is as follows:
-various cpu architectures and operating systems.  Each rpm will require
-glibc on the target system.  It is believed that any rpm-based linux
-distribution should have semi-current glibc installed by default.
-If you run into a distribution that does not work with glibc, or does
-not contain it, please let us know the details.
 
 
-These are the exact steps used to build the official rpms of Tor.
+Download and Extract the latest tor source code from https://www.torproject.org/.
+In the resulting directory:
+./configure
+make dist-rpm
+
+You should have at least two, maybe three, rpms.  There should be the binary
+i386.rpm, a src.rpm, and on redhat/centos machines, a debuginfo.rpm.
 
 
+## Optional customization
+##
 If you wish to further tune Tor binaries in rpm format beyond this list,
 If you wish to further tune Tor binaries in rpm format beyond this list,
 see the GCC doc page for further options:
 see the GCC doc page for further options:
 http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.2/gcc/
 http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.2/gcc/
@@ -54,13 +57,5 @@ This parameter controls the target operating system.  Normally, this is
 only "linux".  If you wish to build rpms for a non-linux operating
 only "linux".  If you wish to build rpms for a non-linux operating
 system, you can replace "linux" with your operating system.
 system, you can replace "linux" with your operating system.
 
 
-The process used to create the distributed rpms is as follows:
 
 
-Download and Extract the latest tor source code from https://www.torproject.org/.
-In the Tor directory:
-./configure
-make dist-rpm
-
-You should have at least two, maybe three, rpms.  There should be the binary
-i386.rpm, a src.rpm, and on redhat/centos machines, a debuginfo.rpm.