On Tuesday 10 April 2001 06:34 am, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Tom,
> I've been following this thread and others like it and I can't help but
> wonder with BIG curiousity. How does one go about "rebuilding" an rpm.src
> package? And is there already info on this contained on my system?
Using mozilla as an example, I 'cd' into the dir I d/l'd to and type (as
root) 'rpm --rebuild mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.src.rpm' rpm unpacks the
source and compiles and builds the rpms
> > mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm,
> > mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm,
> > mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm
Many src.rpms build more than one rpm, eg SimGear-0.0.14-4mdk.src.rpm
builds SimGear-0.0.14-4mdk.i686.rpm and
SimGear-devel-0.0.14-4mdk.i686.rpm
--rebuild figures out what optimization to use, in my case PIII, i686.
When the compile/building process is finished, the new rpms are written to
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i?86/. When --rebuild finishes, if you look a dozen or
so lines up in --rebuild's output in the terminal you'll see something like
" wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm "
Then I just copy/paste this after 'rpm -Uvh' to install the new rpm (minus
the 'wrote:' of course ;)
Note tho, not all cooker src rpms will --rebuild on a 7.2 system.
Most often failure I get is a dependency on glibc 2.2.x. Most single app
src.rpms (eg, mozilla) will compile just fine using 7.2's glibc-2.1.x
'Course the usual "untested-beta-etc" cautions also apply.
If you're using the new 8.0, then all cooker src.rpms should compile and
build.
--
Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever,
he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:10 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > > Dear Tom and friends:
> > > I tried to rebuild the Cooker versions of Mozilla but still got the
> > > same error messages because of the rpm issue.
> > >
> > > By the way, my AMD K6-2 400 is really a i586, not an i686. There was
> > > a
> >
> > Never a problem here Ben (P3-450@600). Out of curiousity, I d/l'd
> > the cooker mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk src rpm yesterday and rebuilt it on my
> > 7.2, rpm-3.0.5-27mdk version, glibc-2.1.3-18.5mdk, 2.4.3 kernel system.
> > This src rpm builds:
> > mozilla-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-devel-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm,
> > mozilla-irc-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm, mozilla-mail-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm,
> > mozilla-psm-0.8.1-2mdk.i686.rpm
> > I installed (rpm -Uvh) only mozilla and mozilla-devel, no problems.
> > 'Help, about Mozilla' shows:
> > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-5tom i686; en-US; 0.8.1)
> > Gecko/20010408
> >
> > This is a very long compile, twice as long as a kernel, over an
> > hour on my box. In compiles like this (or any for that matter), if you
> > get errors, you should try again a few times. If you're getting errors
> > in different places, it's most likely that your hardware is not up to
> > the task.
--
Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever,
he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
