Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?

["Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby rochester rr com>]

"1stFlight !" wrote:
> 
>     This brings my next question if I downloaded the source rpm's _how_
> would I rebuild them for 586 or 686  (whatever a AMD K6-2 is) use?   Thanks
> 
> Darryl
> 

I have never build a binary RPM from a source RPM before but I have
built source and binary RPM's from a source file and tar file.
Nevertheless, 'man rpm' reveals the following operations:

Building:
           rpm [-b|t] [package_spec]+
           rpm [--rebuild] [sourcerpm]+
           rpm [--tarbuild] [tarredsource]+

You also have to add the following options:

--target <arch>-<vendor>-<os>

where <arch> is one of {i386, i486, i586, i686}, <vendor> is some string
(it could be empty), and <os> is {Linux, ...}

If you were using a Pentium, like me, you might execute the following:

rpm --rebuild --target i586--Linux [sourcerpm]+

where [sourcerpm]+ represents 1, or more, source rpm files.

Note: Since you have a K6, I am only confident that you may use "i386"
as your build architecture, as in the following:

rpm --rebuild --target i386--Linux [sourcerpm]+

Try building from one source RPM file. You'd think that I'd have real
experience doing this, since I have built source RPM and binary RPM's of
my own but directly from an RPM spec file and tar file. I never had to
validate the source RPM so I never built a binary from the source. I'm
just offering my knowledge of what you will likely have to do, given my
experience with building RPM's which I have done. Building a binary from
the source should be as easy as I've described. Hopefully my
instructions will be correct.

Please, if anyone thinks that I need correction, please do so.


> "Bruce W. Bigby" wrote:
> 
> > Can the GNOME people please provide a i586 version of the latest GNOME
> > so that we Pentium owners don't have to rebuild the source RPM's just so
> > that we can make the most of our hardware? I and, I'm sure, many Pentium
> > owners would appreciate the added speed that i586 binaries would
> > provide--not to mention the convenience.
> >
> > By the way, after I download the latest GNOME (1.0.53), is upgrading as
> > simple as
> >
> > rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> >
> > or will I have to worry about order or something. Please offer your
> > experience.
> >
> > By the way, I'm running RedHat 6.1 (Intel). Thanks.
> > --
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