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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:11 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
>Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:07 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
>>
>>>Stuart Sears wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:00, M. Lewis decided we wanted to hear the
>>>>following:
>>>>
>>>>>Thanks Taharka. Had I ever created an rpm, that would probably be a
good
>>>>>solution. Unfortunately I haven't and I didn't see any
instructions
>>>>>there for doing so. If you have a pointer to some instructions that
>>>>>would be helpful.
>>>>
>>>>the instructions are at (nearly) the same location as the rpm...
>>>>http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/
>>>>including the source files you need to create your rpm.
>>>>
>>>>but in brief...
>>>>This all applies to a user called 'stuart'. You'll need to
adjust it for a
>>>>*non-privileged* user on your system. Do NOT build rpms as the
'root' user.
>>>>you can also use a directory name other than REDHAT. that's just what
I tend
>>>>to use. The other directory names (SPECS etc) are not customisable without
a
>>>>greate deal of messing about.
>>>>
>>>>1. create a file in your home directory called .rpmmacros
>>>>it should contain:
>>>>%_topdir /home/stuart/REDHAT
>>>>
>>>>2. now create a basic build tree
>>>>mkdir -p /home/stuart/REDHAT/{RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,BUILD,SPECS}
>>>>
>>>>3. put everything in place:
>>>>put the thunderbird.spec file into /home/stuart/REDHAT/SPECS
>>>>cp the 3 source files thunderbird-1.5.tar.gz, thunderbird.png and
>>>>thunderbird.desktop into /home/stuart/REDHAT/SOURCES
>>>>
>>>>4. now use the thunderbird.spec file to build the rpm:
>>>>rpmbuild -bb /home/stuart/REDHAT/SPECS/thunderbird.spec
>>>>
>>>>which, if all goes well, should create loads of output and then eventually
>>>>write the file
>>>>/home/stuart/REDHAT/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.5-1.i386.rpm
>>>>
>>>>ps setting up the build environment as in steps 1 and 2 above can also be
done
>>>>by using yum to install a development-specific rpm.
>>>>yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
>>>>and then fedora-buildrpmtree
>>>>I've just always done this manually...
>>>>Regards
>>>>
>>>>Stuart
>>>>
>>>
>>>Very cool. Thanks Stuart. One question, why do not build the rpm as the
>>>root user?
>>
>>Mainly for protection against poorly-written specfiles and Makefiles,
>>which could end up clobbering bits of your system if you build packages
>>as root. By building packages as a regular user, you won't be
>>overwriting any files that you don't have write permission for. It's
>>even worth considering creating a separate account just for
>>package-building.
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>
>Thanks Paul for the good explanation.
Also, you may want to browse the articles at;
www.fedoranews.org/articles There's a treasure trove of info there :-)
Should be an article regarding setting up an RPM build directory there.