Building lm_sensors-2.8.2 RPM - Help Needed
Kwan Lowe
kwan at digitalhermit.com
Thu Jan 1 17:35:07 UTC 2004
>
> First, I must admit that I am extremely inexperienced when it comes to
> the process of building RPMs. I consider myself quite adept with RedHat
> administration, so I didn't think it would be that hard to learn how to
> build RPMs. I was wrong. If anyone knows of a good place to get solid
> background information that will help with this learning process, please
> let me know.
>
> On to the problem at hand. I'm trying to build my own RPM of
> lm_sensors-2.8.2 so that I can begin to take advantage of the newly
> included asb100 support for my ASUS boards. I've tried to use the SPEC
> file that is included with the lm_sensors source. Despite my attempt to
> modify everything for a current RedHat 9 machine, it did not work. I
> then tried to start from the SPEC file that was included with
> lm_sensors-2.8.1-1.src.rpm. This crashes when attempting to apply the
> RedHat patch. I've tried countless variations and nothing seems to
> work.
>
I have a short guide at http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/rpm
Check out the links section for more in depth guides to building. If you
want, email me the spec privately and I'll take a look see.
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