[CentOS] Rebuilding RPMs

[Bowie Bailey]

From: Matt Hyclak [mailto:hyclak at math.ohiou.edu]
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Bowie Bailey enlightened us:
> > From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:Mail-Lists at karan.org]
> > > 
> > > Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > > > I am trying to install the Cluster RPMS from rpm.karan.org.
> > > > But since I have updated my kernel with yum, I have the wrong
> > > > kernel for a couple of the packages.
> > > > 
> > > > I think I can just grab the source RPM and do a rebuild, but
> > > > having never attempted that before, I just want to make sure
> > > > I'm not missing anything.  (I have built RPMs from source
> > > > tarballs, so I know how to setup the build environment)
> > > > 
> > > > It looks like I can just do this:
> > > > 
> > > > # rpmbuild --rebuild cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.src.rpm
> > > > 
> > > > Is there anything else I need to do?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Just simple rebuilds will work, you might need to work out what
> > > order they are built in - and some pkgs like the cman-kernel
> > > need a specified --target i686 passed in via the rpmbuild.
> > 
> > Hmmm...no luck there.  It still wants the older kernel.
> 
> For the *-kernel packages, you'll have to rpm -i the src.rpm, edit
> the spec file, and rebuild from that.

Making progress here.  One more question and I think I'll be done.

I installed the source package and edited the spec file to change the
kernel version and remove the fake-build-provides requirement (as I
can't seem to find it and it appears to be safe to remove based on a
previous conversation on this list).

I still have a build requirement for the kernel-hugemem package.  I
don't have the hugemem kernel installed and I'm just trying to build
the smp package.  Is it safe to remove this dependency if all I care
about is the smp package?

    $ rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 rpm/SPECS/cman-kernel.spec
    Building target platforms: i686
    Building for target i686
    error: Failed build dependencies:
            kernel-hugemem = 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL is needed by
cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0.i686

Thanks,
Bowie