A bit of top posting. Everything is now working as needed. At least I am making the needed changes for my own RPM building. I will get the developers to pick this up. Or at least try. Again thanks for the help. I am almost to the point where I can find a nice public repo to place these in... Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Warren Young wrote: > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> >>> I await the developers help. >>> >>> >> It's not hard to do it yourself. >> >> First, find the .spec file: >> >> $ cd the/source/trees/root >> $ find . -name \*.spec -print >> >> Then see if there is a top-level 'make' rule for building RPMs: >> >> > > Arch is being used to maintain the source and I do a 'tla replay' to get > the night's patches. So everything is in the tree they use. Since this > is being compiled on lots of different distros, it is not following what > I am used to as you indicate below. > > But the developer showed me the spec file: ./test/packaging/hipl.spec, > and I am playing with the Release value to include the patch level. > > > >> $ grep -l spec *akefile >> $ less the-file-you-found-if-you-did-in-fact-find-one >> >> Likely you'll find that you can say something like 'make rpm' to build >> the RPM. If not, try something like: >> >> # cp the-spec-file.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS >> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS >> # rpmbuild -bb the-spec-file.spec >> >> Once you've figured out how to build the RPM, you can edit the spec file >> and rebuild the RPM. Right up at the top, you'll find the version >> number stuff. You want to change the "Release:" line. It's typically >> an integer, and you just increase it by 1 each time you make a new RPM >> with the same "Version:" line. When the version number changes, the >> release number gets reset to 1. A higher release number is all it takes >> to make rpm not complain when trying to replace an existing package with >> a new one with the same version number. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >