Re: Installing source rpm, RH8.0

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:39, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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> One thing it changes is that packages will place the sources, patches and 
> spec file in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/package-name, rather than dumping all 
> packages in the same directory. (the spec file will be in the same 
> directory, instead of a SPECS directory.) This makes things much less 
> confusing.
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> > It's as if some script was supposed to be run to amalgamate them and
> > doesn't. Trying to install using redhat-config-packages doesn't do much
> > better, except that an rpm -q will indicate the package installed - the
> > files in /SOURCES/ remain the same unusable bunch...
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> Once you have a non-root rpm environment set up, you can run 
> 'rpmbuild -bp package_name.spec' which will extract the source and apply 
> all the included patches. The complete patched source will then be 
> available in  ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/package_name/
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> Hope that helps,
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> - -Michael
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Thanks for the link Michael this looks helpful.  I tend to get in a
hurry and just rebuild stuff as root ( but never on a production box )

Bret