On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:03:51PM +0000, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 09/02/15 13:00, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > >Am 09.02.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Phil Mayers: > >>On 09/02/15 01:29, Carl Byington wrote: > >>>On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 16:10 +0200, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > >>>>I had some issues in some old versions of CentOS 6 for a caching > >>>>server so I have compiled bind from sources. > >>> > >>>You might try the building the source rpm packages at > >>>http://www.five-ten-sg.com/mapper/bind > >> > >>These are very good RPMs BTW. Thanks for doing this. > >> > >>One tiny suggestion - would it be possible to make the contents, minus > >>the bind source tarball, available separately? This will save you some > >>bandwidth and let those with fast connections download the spec+patches > >>from you, then download bind from a fast or local mirror. Just a thought > > > >the whole purpose of a src.rpm is that one can just do "rpmbuild > >--rebuild package.src.rpm" and that's the correct way > > Is it really? Wow, thanks, I didn't know that! > > /sarcasm > > My point was that Carl generously hosts these, and while many people > will download the full .src.rpm, some people - such as myself - > would, if offered, download the .spec+patches as a tarball, and the > bind tarball separately, saving him some bandwidth and load.
He could build a nosrc.rpm by using NoSource: tags instead of Source: tags in the spec file. > For what it's worth, not everyone does "rpm --rebuild". We unpack > the .src.rpm and put the .spec+patches into our "mock" buildsystem. No need to unpack. mock -r epel-6-x86_64 bind-foo.src.rpm _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
