On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Building packages using RPMBUILD
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I had already installed the packages mentioned in the Centos
>> wiki.
>
> I assume you are referring to this wiki:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
>
> If not, I strongly recommend reading it through. Up front it warns you
> to not do the build as root. It provides the details for setting up
> the build environment which will help you understand the whole
> process. Installing some rpms may be convenient but you may miss the
> chance of learning. :-)
I have followed the above tutorial, which was well written,
and easy to understand.
Then I started on this one, linked to from the above Wiki
page:
Building Source RPM as non-root under CentOS
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/
Got up to here:
Let's build something -- As a simple example, we have a
local SRPM copy of the 'joe' text editor at a permanent
location (backup is here). Let's get a copy and build it as
non root [we have numbered the lines, so that we may refer
to specifics after we are done]:
1 [herrold@dhcp-233 ~]$ cd
2 [herrold@dhcp-233 ~]$ mkdir build
3 [herrold@dhcp-233 ~]$ cd build
4 [herrold@dhcp-233 build]$ mkdir joe
5 [herrold@dhcp-233 build]$ cd joe
6 [herrold@dhcp-233 joe]$ joe README
7 [herrold@dhcp-233 joe]$ wget
ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/joe/joe-2.9.8-4.src.rpm
8 [herrold@dhcp-233 joe]$ rpmbuild --rebuild
joe-2.9.8-4.src.rpm
In reviewing the commands above, we did this:
1. Move to the home directory
2. Make the ~/build/ subdirectory
3. Move into the ~/build/ subdirectory
4. Make the ~/build/joe/ subdirectory
5. Move into ~/build/joe/ subdirectory
6. Update our notes in the README
7. Retrieve the SRPM using wget
8. Build the binary RPM
When we inspect: ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ we find the binary
file: joe-2.9.8-4.i386.rpm
...
and the build process works OK! I had to install
ncurses-devel (did that as root) for joe to build OK.
Then I did my new sox program, which built fine first
time. So I well pleased to have rebuilt 2 src.rpm files.
Now I know my build environment works OK, I can try
building some other packages, by editing their spec files.
Thanks to everyone for all the help I received with this.
Looks like there might be another third party Centos repo
on the horizon soon ;)
I guess I'll get my head down with another pass at
MaximumRPM now.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
--
In theory, theory and practice are the same;
in practice they are not.
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