Re: rpms

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Lee Mallabone wrote:
> Brady Hegberg wrote:
> > 
> > I've seen this posted a few times but I''ve never seen this command work
> > nor have I ever met anyone who was able to make it work.  Perhaps you must
> > have an EXTERMELY clean system for this command to work?
> 
> As long as your rpm installation is working fine, there shouldn't be a
> problem.
> 
> 'rpm -ta package' extracts the .spec file out of the tarball, unpacks
> the tarball to /usr/src/redhat/BUILD, (assuming the spec file was
> valid), and then begins the build procedure.
> 
> If you're not running as root, or the tarball's name is not exactly
> right, (usually packagename-version-1.arch.rpm, substituting all those
> for your system's equivalents), then the build will usually fail before
> it gets a chance to begin.
> 
> Also, from time to time you get bad .spec files, e.g. a spec file for
> 1.0.4 was left in a 1.0.5 tarball. Such probs can usually be rectified
> by inspecting/editing the spec file though.
> 
> Btw, to whoever does the packaging, I had to manually copy the
> default.session file into $(RPM_BUILD_ROOT)/usr/share in order to get a
> gnome-core 1.0.5 tarball to make rpm's. Not sure if anyone else has had
> this problem though...
> 
> Hope that helps you "roll your own" rpms anyhow. :)

Also, if you are interested in rolling your own RPMs, check out the
"gbuild" module.  It is a script designed to ease downloading, compiling
and packaging GNOME modules, which includes features for making spec
files and RPMs. I use it constantly, but I haven't tried its RPM features.

-Gleef