>>>>> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:38:55 +0200, "Timo Neuvonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Timo> With no prior experience of building rpms (not counting the checkinstall Timo> tool), I just made my first try... or actually the first ten and something Timo> tries ;-) Timo> Yes, building rpms might belong to somewhere else in newsgroups hierarchy, Timo> but maybe there is something Bacula-spesific anyway... Timo> Started with this: Timo> http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_ensu_RPM_Packaging.html Timo> So, I downloaded the 1.38.2 sorce rpm, into an empty directory Timo> /home/timo/bacula, on FC4. After some trial and error, I have installed a Timo> number of missing devel rpms etc, so now I can make a bunch of binary rpms Timo> with the following: Timo> rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_fc4 1" \ Timo> --define "build_mysql 1" bacula-1.38.2-1.src.rpm Timo> The abovementioned RPM packaging faq has several references to the spec Timo> file, like Timo> rpmbuild -ba --define "build_rh7 1" bacula.spec Timo> or simply editing something inside the spec file. Timo> ** so, my current problem: ** Timo> Where is the spec file, how to extract it for editing, etc? Now, the spec Timo> obviously contains some stuff I'd like to change: the compile process keeps Timo> claiming there is no user or group called 'kern' (Sorry about this, Kern... Timo> maybe you really would deserve an account on every machine running Timo> Bacula...), the package is told to be built by Scott etc... Timo> This process seems to unpack the source to Timo> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES for as long as the build process is running. But Timo> obviously the spec isn't that deep there...? You can use rpm --installl with the src rpm to unpack it into the build location (probably under /usr/src/redhat/SPECS). You can then pass the path of the spec file to rpm -ba. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
