On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
I had already installed the packages mentioned in the Centos wiki.
I assume you are referring to this wiki:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
If not, I strongly recommend reading it through. Up front it warns you to not do the build as root. It provides the details for setting up the build environment which will help you understand the whole process. Installing some rpms may be convenient but you may miss the chance of learning. :-)
I have followed the above tutorial, which was well written, and easy to understand.
Then I started on this one, linked to from the above Wiki page:
Building Source RPM as non-root under CentOS
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/
Got up to here:
Let's build something -- As a simple example, we have a local SRPM copy of the 'joe' text editor at a permanent location (backup is here). Let's get a copy and build it as non root [we have numbered the lines, so that we may refer to specifics after we are done]:
1 [herrold@dhcp-233 ~]$ cd 2 [herrold@dhcp-233 ~]$ mkdir build 3 [herrold@dhcp-233 ~]$ cd build 4 [herrold@dhcp-233 build]$ mkdir joe 5 [herrold@dhcp-233 build]$ cd joe 6 [herrold@dhcp-233 joe]$ joe README 7 [herrold@dhcp-233 joe]$ wget ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/joe/joe-2.9.8-4.src.rpm 8 [herrold@dhcp-233 joe]$ rpmbuild --rebuild joe-2.9.8-4.src.rpm
In reviewing the commands above, we did this:
1. Move to the home directory 2. Make the ~/build/ subdirectory 3. Move into the ~/build/ subdirectory 4. Make the ~/build/joe/ subdirectory 5. Move into ~/build/joe/ subdirectory 6. Update our notes in the README 7. Retrieve the SRPM using wget 8. Build the binary RPM
When we inspect: ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ we find the binary file: joe-2.9.8-4.i386.rpm
...
and the build process works OK! I had to install ncurses-devel (did that as root) for joe to build OK.
Then I did my new sox program, which built fine first time. So I well pleased to have rebuilt 2 src.rpm files.
Now I know my build environment works OK, I can try building some other packages, by editing their spec files.
Thanks to everyone for all the help I received with this.
Looks like there might be another third party Centos repo on the horizon soon ;)
I guess I'll get my head down with another pass at MaximumRPM now.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts