A bit of top posting.
Everything is now working as needed. At least I am making the needed
changes for my own RPM building. I will get the developers to pick this
up. Or at least try.
Again thanks for the help. I am almost to the point where I can find a
nice public repo to place these in...
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Warren Young wrote:
>
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I await the developers help.
>>>
>>>
>> It's not hard to do it yourself.
>>
>> First, find the .spec file:
>>
>> $ cd the/source/trees/root
>> $ find . -name \*.spec -print
>>
>> Then see if there is a top-level 'make' rule for building RPMs:
>>
>>
>
> Arch is being used to maintain the source and I do a 'tla replay' to get
> the night's patches. So everything is in the tree they use. Since this
> is being compiled on lots of different distros, it is not following what
> I am used to as you indicate below.
>
> But the developer showed me the spec file: ./test/packaging/hipl.spec,
> and I am playing with the Release value to include the patch level.
>
>
>
>> $ grep -l spec *akefile
>> $ less the-file-you-found-if-you-did-in-fact-find-one
>>
>> Likely you'll find that you can say something like 'make rpm' to build
>> the RPM. If not, try something like:
>>
>> # cp the-spec-file.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>> # rpmbuild -bb the-spec-file.spec
>>
>> Once you've figured out how to build the RPM, you can edit the spec file
>> and rebuild the RPM. Right up at the top, you'll find the version
>> number stuff. You want to change the "Release:" line. It's typically
>> an integer, and you just increase it by 1 each time you make a new RPM
>> with the same "Version:" line. When the version number changes, the
>> release number gets reset to 1. A higher release number is all it takes
>> to make rpm not complain when trying to replace an existing package with
>> a new one with the same version number.
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