On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:05 AM Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote:
>
> You can see a xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm there.  I typically use mock to
> build these sorts of packages.
>
> Another thing you could do is get your own COPR space and fork Spot's
> xnee repos and build it there for Fedora 33.
>
> Thanks, Jonathan. But how can I go from de src.rpm to the rpm? Have I
> to install mock? Is that easy?
>
> Just:
>
>     dnf install mock
>
> and
>
>     mock /path/to/xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm
>
> Mock will install the results in a subdirectory of /var/lib/mock, although it 
> has multiple options to change its behavior, such as using —resultdir <path>.
>
> I usually add myself to the “mock” group so I don’t need to enter a password 
> to run mock as a regular user.

Thanks a lot, Jonathan! I was able to create the Fedora 33 rpm of xnee
by using mock -- it was very simple. I am now going to check out how
to upload that to COPR.

Paul
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