On 12/11/2022 6:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:29:26 -0500
Bill Cunningham wrote:
cdrkit-1.11-50.fc37.src.rpm. which is what everyone else has. How can I
get this installed from a local directory, even though it's a source
rpm. Others have had this question, but IDK how they resolved it.
For source rpms you need to setup a ~/.rpmmacros file to tell it
where to put the unpacked source, then a command like
rpm -ihv whatever.src.rpm
will install a bunch of tar files in the install directory, then
you'll need to go to the SPECS directory where the source
was installed do something like
rpmbuild -bp cdrkit.spec
which will unpack all the source and apply all the patches so you
can actually examine the source files. (Lots of other options on
rpmbuild).
Dealing with source rpms the first time is always a confusing
experience, but you can probably find better documentation
than this short message.
I do certainly appreciate this Tom. It does look confusing. I will work
on it though.
B
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