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I've been reading this tutorial, as I need to build a package for my own personal use. Do the instructions in the tutorial apply to Mageia or would I need to make some changes for building on Mageia.

.\\artin

If you plan to build some rpm for your personal use (as you say) then the best solution is to use checkinstall.
Much much easier.
You only need to build the package (make/cmake whatever) and instead of the final make install just use checkinstall.
Only few questions to answer (name/version,etc) and you have your own rpm package.

Thanks, I'll try that.

EDIT:
Woah - it's not in the repos.

.\\artin

I was going to do a package request for checkinstall but someone's beaten me to it

However, I'd still like to know if the Mandrake instructions are valid for setting up a Mageia build system.

.\\artin

The main parts are identical, but you can have a look here: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rpm_start

Thank you very much indeed for that, it's exactly what I was looking for

.\\artin