[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?
R P Herrold
herrold at centos.org
Mon Oct 11 01:35:24 UTC 2010
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>> There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the
>> source.
>>
>> Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree
> Warning: No matches found for: rpmdevtools
> No Matches found
As I recall, rpmdevtools is a Fedora-ism
The actions in question set up a local %{_topdir} and then the
RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS and so forth directories for a local user
[root at trap64 log]# su - herrold
[herrold at trap64 ~]$ cat .rpmmacros
%_topdir /home/herrold/rpmbuild
%make make
%dist orc
%releasetagsuffix orc
%vendor %{dist}
#
[herrold at trap64 ~]$ ls -l ~/rpmbuild/
total 40
drwxrwxr-x 8 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 BUILD
drwxrwxr-x 4 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 4 16:53 RPMS
drwxrwxr-x 3 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SOURCES
drwxrwxr-x 2 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SPECS
drwxrwxr-x 2 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SRPMS
[herrold at trap64 ~]$
I think at one point the referenced package had a copy of a
little script I've long since published at:
ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/COLUG/RPM-build-tree.txt
itself based on a post on the mailing list rpm-list
-- Russ herrold
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