Being Newer Than Red Hat

[Matthew J. Brodeur]

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Kent Borg wrote:

> But this whole thing has me thinking.  Maybe it is finally time for me
> to learn how to build my own RPMs.  Might it be useful try to run much
> of my sysadmining through an RPM bottleneck?  Not that my box is a

   I have often thought the same thing.  Between time constraints and 
laziness I have never actually learned the whole process.  The closest I 
come is building an RPM using someone else's spec file, often fixing 
minor things along the way.
   In your case you could grab a .src.rpm from the rawhide (or limbo) 
tree:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-5.src.rpm
   and run:
# rpmbuild --rebuild cvs-1.11.2-5.src.rpm

   This _should_ either build a binary RPM or give you pointers to any 
missing libraries needed to finish the build.
   I have also noticed that while many authors are not directly 
distributing RPMs, they're including .spec files inside the source 
tarball.  The rpmbuild command can be run on a tar file with the "-t" 
flag.


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     -Matt

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe. 

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