On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Carlos Williams <carlosw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Gary Smith
<gary.sm...@holdstead.com> wrote:
Carlos,
You might want to put together a build environment and roll your
own. I tend to do this for a lot of software (as I need to
application specific business required patches to several
packages). In most cases, you can easily setup a chroot
environment of some type, download the source RPM (instead binary),
and then compile it. In many cases, when I need to go from 2.6.x
up to the next version, I just download the new source file, edit
my spec file for postfix, change the version number, run a single
command to build it, wait about 4 minutes, then I have a package.
(it's easier than it sounds once you've done it a few times).
Gary - I have never done this before for any application so I would
like to try this with you advice. Where do I start and is there a
guide or step by step instructions I would take in order to create my
own 2.6.5 RPM package? I am guessing I need to go to www.postfix.org
and download the source code:
http://mirrors.rootservices.net/postfix/official/postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz
Is that the correct file I would need to build from or do I need a
source rpm file?
This is not the right forum to discuss RPM construction. Would you
guys mind taking this off-list? Thanks.
--
Sahil Tandon
