[Wolves] Building RPMs

[Mo Awkati]

 --- David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk> wrote: 
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Hi David

That is very helpfull indeed. Cheers

Mo


> 
> Hi Mo,
> 
> I can't talk for SuSE, but on RedHat there is a
> program / package called
> "rpmbuild" (rpm -b does the same if i remember
> correctly).
> 
> Essentially you download the .src.rpm packages,
> which contain the source
> and build instructions, and install them. You'll
> then find stuff in
> /usr/src/redhat/XXXXXX where XXXX is something like
> SRC, SPECS, BUILD or
> RPMS.
> 
> The SPECS directory contains the configuration flags
> etc for a package,
> and i _think_ you compile the package with something
> like :
> 
> rpm -ba something.spec
> 
> Once this is done you'll find .rpm's in the RPMs
> directory.
> 
> There are numerous flags you can pass the .spec
> file, and it can also be
> edited as well.
> 
> As you're compiling stuff you'll need to have
> compilers and -dev
> packages installed on your system.
> 
> Is that of any use?
> 
> 
> On the other hand, you could get a .tar.gz and spend
> a fair bit of time
> making that into a .src.rpm package (writing a spec
> file and putting the
> things in teh correct place etc). I've not done
> that, so I can't help
> you there.
> 
> 
> 
> David
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