[CentOS] Building a 64bit rpm

Tue Apr 8 22:57:23 UTC 2008
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:51:04 -0600
"Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale at ActiveNetwerx.com> wrote:

> So reading through all of this, it looks like the rpmdevtools from epel is the simplest. Once I create a non root user, then as that user create the build environment, where should I execute the `rpmbuild --rebuild xen.srpm` command from?

Anywhere you like, as long as you're not changing anything in or about the srpm.

> I assume that matters so the rpmbuild command finds whatever file it needs to
work under the fake root?

Not unless you're making changes.

> Just to clarify, if I am on an x64 system, will this only create the x64 rpm as expected?

Yes.

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