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Centos

17 Jan 2008 17 Jan '08

3:40 p.m.

Hello

Is there any good and quick document on building spec file. there is source file that has no rpm and we need to build the spec file and srpm.

Thanks

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Tim Verhoeven

17 Jan 17 Jan

3:59 p.m.

On Jan 17, 2008 4:40 PM, Centos centos@unixplanet.biz wrote:

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Is there any good and quick document on building spec file. there is source file that has no rpm and we need to build the spec file and srpm.

Hi,

This page should help you : http://wiki.rpm.org/Docs

A second suggestion is to look at spec files from the different repositories you can find online (CentOS, DAG/RPMForge, Atrpms, ...)

Regards, Tim

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Centos

4:09 p.m.

Warren Young

10:41 p.m.

Centos wrote:

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any thing specific for centos ?

If you build and test the package on CentOS and it works, then you've built a package for CentOS. There's no need to make it any more difficult than that.

All that changes when you move an RPM from one system to another is how packages are named when you have dependencies, and what tools are available. That's why it's important to build and test on the deployment platform. When it works, it's done.

Alex White

4:07 p.m.

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:40:51 -0400 Centos centos@unixplanet.biz took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:

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Hello

Is there any good and quick document on building spec file. there is source file that has no rpm and we need to build the spec file and srpm.

Thanks

http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html

A quick google should give you some nice places to find such information; however, Fedora Packaging Guidelines might be what you're looking for. also, you can have a gander at some simple spec files for some packages that are an easy ./configure && make && make install sorts.

The above link is from rpm.org and may or may not be what you're looking for.

HTH

Alex White

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