On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:17:30AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
[...]
> The installation of binary application packages is for the
> purpose of running software, documenting how to use that
> software, and it's configuration files.
it seems like you ignore the most important point from my post:
something like 'README.redhat' doesn't exist and i needed for some packages.
the spec would be a good start... for instance, did you know that squid is
built whithout 'delay-pools'? which are parameters used in './configure' for
php3, apache etc?
[...]
> I think I see the problem more properly now. You want the .spec
> file from a particular .src.rpm package, and you don't want to
> have to download that entire package.
at last...
> Or better yet, take all the .spec's and put them in one big
> tarball to download, or heck - even an RPM.
>
> rpm -ivh specs-6.2.i386.rpm
very good ideea!
>
> Now you just need someone out there that has all the srpm's to
> make you an RPM containing them all... Hmm.. I have them
> all.. ;o) I know how to extract them....
see attached file
[...]
> Should the specs .spec get included in the
> specs spec directory for the specs rpm of specs?
no, in a separate directory, like /usr/doc/rh-specs
[...]
> Really though... trust me... get Maximum RPM.
believe me/us. i/we know how to make rpms. and brw, that book is obsoletes
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<o-o> Viorel ANGHEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[`-']
-"-"- In Linux We Trust.
#!/bin/sh
# Viorel Anghel <vang @ auctionwatch.ro>
DESTDIR=/tmp/SPECS
tempfile=temp_get_specs.cpio
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo " extract SPECS from all '*.src.rpm' (into $DESTDIR)"
echo " require one argument: directory to scan"
echo " for example: $0 /mnt/cdrom"
echo " or: $0 ."
exit 1
else
# try to get an ABSOLUTE path name
# we need that because we'll cd into $destdir and run 'find' from there
sourcedir=`(cd $1 || exit 2 ; pwd)`
fi
mkdir -p $DESTDIR || exit 3
cd $DESTDIR || exit 4
# the argument list might be too long for 'for i in *.rpm'
find $sourcedir -name '*.src.rpm' -print | while read file
do
echo $file
rpm2cpio $file > $tempfile
cpio --extract '*.spec' < $tempfile
done
rm $tempfile
