Re: how to build a patched binary rpm from a source rpm?

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Tuesday, 16 October 2007, at 11:21:16 (-0400),
Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   what's the canonical way to build a modified binary rpm from the
> original source rpm?  i can download the source rpm, install it under
> my own "rpms/" directory, then run:
> 
>   $ rpmbuild -bp <spec file>
> 
> to run the prep stage.
> 
>   at that point, i can mess with the source, but it's not clear what
> command to invoke to have the build pick up at that point and finish
> off the build to create the (now modified) binary rpm.
> 
>   i would have thought this would involve "--short-circuit" in some
> way, but that doesn't seem possible.

What you're looking for is Mezzanine:

http://beta.kainx.org/articles/6

The basic procedure is something like this:

1.  mzimport -L foo.src.rpm
2.  cd foo
3.  mzprep
4.  <Make changes to source tree found under work/>
5.  mzpatch -n foo-change_description.patch
6.  <Add patch to spec file>
7.  mzbuild

Michael

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