RPM .spec file for Xorg server

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Mon Sep 12 03:45:45 UTC 2005


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if there was a .spec file running around
>> anywhere for building the X server only (well, plus drivers,
>> extensions, modules, etc. needed for xfree86) for Fedora
>> Core from the Xorg CVS tree.
>
>
> Xorg CVS would hit rawhide soon. At that point you can use 
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com to get the spec files


I had a look at that, and it was interesting, but...  there are a lot of 
patches
in there and it builds everything, including docs, libraries, and 
applications.
I was hoping to build an unmodified server tree with no patches.

-Philip


>
>>
>> P.S. Related newbie question... Is there an easy way to extract
>>   an individual file from a binary RPM?
>
>
> look at rpm2cpio
>
> regards
> Rahul
>




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