[Rule-list] Request for rpm build procedure

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 28 May 2002 01:10 am, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> > http://www.rpm.org/
> > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1/index.html
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/RPM-HOWTO/index.html
>
> Thanks. Do they explain how to play with RPM building when you have no
> root password? I might find myself in that situation for a few days...

I never build rpms as root, and doing so as a mortal user is quite easy.
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hacks/rpm_environment.tar.gz
Is a small script which will set up an rpm build environment in your home 
directory. Once set up, you can install source rpms (or build an rpm from 
scratch) without root access.
Just download the tarball, tar -xvzf rpm_environment.tar.gz, cd 
rpmenvironment, and run ./rpmsetup.sh. It will create a directory tree 
under ~/rpmbuild/ and install .rpmmacros, and .rpmrc files. The comments 
in the script should explain what it is doing, and why. 
The only real change from the standard setup is that I don't use a SPECS/ 
directory, preferring instead to have the spec files installed with the 
source code in the SOURCE/$package_name directory. Like so:
[mfratoni at paradox slinky]$ ls ~/rpmbuild/
BUILD  RPMS  SOURCES  SRPMS  tmp

[mfratoni at paradox slinky]$ ls ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
anaconda-7.2      MPlayer-0.60        whichcd-0.1
anaconda-7.2ORIG  netdate-1.16        xf86ttfontool-0.1
anaconda-7.2RULE  redhat-release-7.3  
anaconda-7.3      vacation-1.2.6
logsentry-1.1.1   vacation-1.2.7.rc1

[mfratoni at paradox slinky]$ ls ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/netdate-1.16/
netdate-1.16.patch  netdate-1.16.tar.gz  netdate.spec

Once setup, you should be able to follow the instructions from the links 
above to build rpms. To build the package above for example, I can just:
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/netdate-1.16/
rpm -ba netdate.spec

Which will build both the .rpm and the .src.rpm packages for netdate.

Hope that helps,
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