From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne
I am trying to package ruby-1.8.6 for CentOS-4.5 and I would like to take a look at the spec files used for ruby-1.8.1 that ships with CentOS. Is there any place that I can see these or could someone do me the kindness of sending them to me?
Download the SRPMS off of http://mirror.centos.org/centos
I am also confused as to how one breaks out the component parts of a build into separate rpm packages. The source distribution from ruby-lang.org seemingly permits only three install options; all, no-docs and docs-only. How and where does one refactor the build scripts to create separate rpms for ruby, ruby-libs, ruby-devel, ruby-docs, rdoc, irb, ri, and ruby-tcltk? I would appreciate greatly any guidance here.
This is configured in the RPM .spec file and handled automatically during the rpmbuild process.
I have zero experience with creating rpm packages, but I ran across a reference to checkinstall in a reply to one of my queries on ruby-forum and have decided to have a go at putting an rpm together, for my own purposes if it proves beyond my capability to do so for the community.
You will need gcc, binutils, make, patch, rpm-build, redhat-rpm-config and maybe gcc-c++ and stdc++ libs.
There is pretty good documentation on the rpm spec file format at:
and
-Ross
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