Hi, Without trying to start another heated discussion, are we going to create a specific page on creating a building infrastructure for RPMs and on how to rebuild a SRPM? My original e-mail from last week follows. Please let me know if you want me to contribute. Thanks a lot, Filipe On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:49, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As discussed on the centos-users list, I would like to create some > pages on the CentOS Wiki with instructions on how to set up your > environment to build RPMs and how to rebuild RPMs. This content today > exists here: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source#head-a8dae925eec15786df9f6f8c918eff16bf67be0d > > I would suggest creating these two: > > 1) http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM > -> what SRPMs are, how to download them, how to install them, how to > rebuild them > -> link to the other page on how to set up your rpm-build environment > > 2) http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment > -> install "rpm-build" package with yum > -> set up ~/.rpmmacros > -> tips on packages that are usually needed when building rpms > (*-devel, gcc, make, etc.) > > Once those pages are done, the page on "building the kernel" may refer > to that one for the generic instructions on how to set up rpm building > environment. > > My WikiUserName is FilipeBrandenburger.
