[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?
JohnS
jses27 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 01:53:49 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 21:35 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>
> >> There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the
> >> source.
> >>
> >> Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree
>
> > Warning: No matches found for: rpmdevtools
> > No Matches found
>
> As I recall, rpmdevtools is a Fedora-ism
> The actions in question set up a local %{_topdir} and then the
> RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS and so forth directories for a local user
>
> [root at trap64 log]# su - herrold
> [herrold at trap64 ~]$ cat .rpmmacros
> %_topdir /home/herrold/rpmbuild
> %make make
> %dist orc
> %releasetagsuffix orc
> %vendor %{dist}
> #
> [herrold at trap64 ~]$ ls -l ~/rpmbuild/
> total 40
> drwxrwxr-x 8 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 BUILD
> drwxrwxr-x 4 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 4 16:53 RPMS
> drwxrwxr-x 3 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SOURCES
> drwxrwxr-x 2 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SPECS
> drwxrwxr-x 2 herrold herrold 4096 Oct 10 21:12 SRPMS
> [herrold at trap64 ~]$
> RPM-build-tree.txt
> I think at one point the referenced package had a copy of a
> little script I've long since published at:
> ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/COLUG/RPM-build-tree.txt
> itself based on a post on the mailing list rpm-list
>
> -- Russ herrold
----
:-) Well I knew where it was, it's just not in the distro. (fedorism)
He would yet be stuck installing another repo for the people. Would be
easier to use your Russ RPM-build-tree.txt script for him to do it. I
like this option also added to it "%_tmppath" /foo/hoo ....
John
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