Re: totem question

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On Monday 21 January 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I had enough livna troubles to last me a while when I was running FC6.  If
>> I have to move outside the auspices of the rpm packagers, then I've found
>> I'm far better off to just build the tarball and be done with it.  Which
>> is what I did with mplayer itself, but not its plugin, which was
>> available.
>>
>> Thanks Mikkel.
>
>Rather then building directly from the source, you may want to
>consider downloading the source RPM and building from that. That
>way, you are still using the package manager. That way, it will
>hopefully warn you when an update is going to break things.
>
>I have done this for a lot of packages. The only drawback is that
>when you go to update, you may have to remove the packages yourself
>before you can update to the next release of Fedora. It helps if you
>keep a record of the packages you build, both to help when you
>upgrade, and so you know what you are going to have to build again.
>Because I build RPMs as a user, I normally have the ones I build in
>my home directory, so it is easy. If I want to use the same version,
>I just rebuild the package from the source RPM, using the updated
>libraries. If not, the old spec file is a good place to start if I
>can not get a source RPM for the new version.
>
>Mikkel

Unforch, I have yet to come onto a tutorial on writing spec files that 
explains it in sufficient detail that _I_ can understand it.  If I want an 
rpm, I may use checkinstall, but its so bloody broken that by the time I get 
a good rpm built with it, the spec file, and its dependency list are badly 
broken.  I built a gutenprint that ran my printer perfectly, but had to use 
smarts ability to freeze a version in place else the updates from FC6 
insisted on installing gimp-print-4.2.7, a 5 year old orphaned for the last 4 
years package, over the top of it.  My printer is an antique Epson C82, but 
gimp-print-4.2.7 never heard of it other than as a generic.

Now if someone were to write a tutorial on spec file's, starting at the 
McGuffy's Readers level, I MIGHT be able to do that.  If it exists, I haven't 
found it, and I have asked here for guidance several times.

Thanks Mikkel.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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