On 07/16/2014 08:53 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 07/15/2014 10:02 AM, David Mansfield wrote:
Hi All,
Congrats on Centos 7, and thanks a million!
This may have been answered before but I can't seem to discover...
I did:
yumdownloader --source sssd rpmbuild --rebuild sssd-1.11.2-68.el7_0.5.src.rpm
And the packages I got had a different "dist" tag than the installed versions.
Installed versions are ".el7_0" and the built ones were ".el7.centos".
sssd-1.11.2-68.el7_0.5.x86_64 <== in repo sssd-1.11.2-68.el7.centos.5.x86_64 <== rebuilt locally
Is there a reason for this mismatch and is in intentional or an error? It's a pain in the butt because I often want to replace existing package version using 'rpm --replacepkgs --oldpackage' while testing fixes and this makes it close to impossible due to huge dependency issues.
(also, it seems like the default rebuild of the above package "forgets" to generate one of the necessary packages: python-sssdconfig, but thats a different issue).
Also note that if you do checkouts from git instead of yumdownloader, we have specifically added an into_srpm.sh script that calls return_disttag.sh and builds an SRPM from the tree. There is no reason you can't also use those script in any rpmbuild extracted build area ... it should work there too
scripts located here:
I was wrong :)
Many of those scripts look for git specific things and will not work in an rpmbuild area that is not git based .. BUT .. I think, after reviewing return_disttag.sh it will work there.
Regardless, those would be a good basis for scripts that would work with yumdownloader if you want to create them.