Hi Stan,
I think I can help simplify this a bit.
stan wrote:
>>> As far as I'm aware, the way to do this is to create a build tree in
>>> your home directory,
>>> rpmdev-setuptree
FWIW, this is not needed since rpm-4.6 (F10) as rpm now defaults to
using your home dir and creates these directories as needed.
>>> and then get the src.rpm package,
>>> yumdownloader --source<package name>
>>> and install it in the build tree, as a user.
>>> rpm -ivh<package name>
>>> Once this is done, move to the SPEC directory,
>>> cd ~/rpmbuild/SPEC
>>> and run the rpmbuild command to unpack everything.
>>> rpmbuild -bp<package name>.spec
>>> At this point the source will be unpacked in
>>> ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/<package name>
>>> You can then look at it with the editor of your choice.
>>
>> Thank you for the concise description of how to do this, I'm going to
>> use it (with attribution) the next time someone hits me with "how do
>> I..." on building from source.
>>
> You're welcome, glad it was helpful. It probably exists on the Fedora
> wiki somewhere, though probably not so succinctly stated. I do know the
> "compile a custom kernel" page has a more detailed and involved
> explanation. I forgot to mention in the above that the patches that
> fedora applies will be in the ~/rpmbuild/SOURCE directory after
> unpacking.
On the whole, I'd avoid all of the manual work and just use fedpkg.
You can yum install it on Fedora and CentOS/RHEL.
# Clone the package, anonymously (drop the -a if you're in the fedora
# packager group).
fedpkg clone -a foo
# Change to the newly create package dir.
cd foo
# Have fedpkg download the source tarball(s) and extract it, applying
# any patches as well.
fedpkg prep
At this point, you will have the package source in a subdirectory,
typically %{name}-%{version}. This will be the contents for rawhide.
If you wish to see a different release, use fedpkg switch-branch
prior to the fedpkg prep call (e.g. fedpkg switch-branch f14).
One nice thing (IMO) about this method is that all the patches and
source files are in one directory. I always hated having things
spread out in rpm's default {BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS} dirs (and I setup an
~/.rpmmacros to not use that layout).
HTH,
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