[Wolves] Building RPMs

[Kevanf1]

>From what I can find in my SuSE 9.1 manual RPMBuild is part of YaST. 
I don't know much yet about this but I 'think' RPMbuild can be invoked
from the console or it is done automatically through YaST.  If I can
find anymore I'll post it up.


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:33:31 +0000 (GMT), Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>  --- 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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