[tor-bugs] #1873 [Tor bundles/installation]: Automate RPM package builds

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#1873: Automate RPM package builds
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 Reporter:  erinn                     |       Owner:  erinn              
     Type:  task                      |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Deliverable-Mar2011
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |     Version:                     
 Keywords:                            |      Parent:  #1869              
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 Currently we distribute RPMs for vidalia and tor in our repositories.
 Building these is a lot less pleasant, and much slower, than building debs
 because of the overhead involved in launching VirtualBox VMs. This process
 needs to be streamlined first, either by finding a new solution to deal
 with RPM-based distributions, or VB needs to stop being recalcitrant and
 let me launch VMs headlessly.

 The Tor spec file in my packaging-improvements branch
 (https://gitweb.torproject.org/erinn/tor.git/shortlog/refs/heads
 /packaging-improvements) has been generalized enough that it now builds on
 all of the distributions without any manual fiddling, but the init script
 still needs to be improved. When I add those, I'll move this to
 needs_review so it can be merged into Tor master which will streamline the
 autobuild process as well.

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