Yeti, Wow! I am learning all kinds of useful skills today! Good stuff. I had just a few questions on the procedure you outlined below... 1. Is the difference between a tar.gz and a tar.bz2 just different compression algorithms? 2. I did not see any obvious errors from the rpmbuild command and the last line displayed "exit 0"... Is there anything else I should look for in the output? 3. I see that I now have 2 rpms in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386, regular and devel versions. Since everything went well with the rpmbuild, is the idea now that I install one of these rpms "for real"? And if something doesn't work right, I can uninstall the rpm? 4. What extras do I get with the devel rpm? Thanks for all the good input -- Warren -----Original Message----- From: gtk-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:gtk-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Necas (Yeti) Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:29 PM To: gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How do I update ONLY GLib? On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 04:50:56PM -0600, Warren Fenlon wrote: > Ok, that sounds like an interesting possibility, but I am something of a > neophyte when it comes to compiling system "stuff". I DO know how to > install rpms anyway. My assumption from the src.rpm name is that it is > source only files and after installing it there is a build step, Yes, http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch-rpm-overview.html#id292 8597 > 1. What is the "spec" file?, A recipe to build the package, it's inside the src.rpm. http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch08s02.html and http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch-specfiles.html > 2. How do I "inform" the build process where my new glib files are? http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch08s02.html#id2966521 > 3. What is the build syntax? http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch08s02.html#id2966991 > Probably pretty basic questions, but I really do NOT want to screw up my > system :-). Well, then it's really preferable to install it to a non-system location following Tristan's instructions. Anyway (as a user, not root): # Set up the build tree in ~/rpmbuild echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpmbuild" >>~/.rpmmacros mkdir -p $HOME/rpmbuild/{SPECS,SOURCES,RPMS/{noarch,i386,i586,i686,x86_64},SRPMS,BUIL D} # Fix the pkg rpm -i glib2-2.4.7-1.src.rpm cp glib-2.12.6.tar.bz2 ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ vim ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/glib2.spec [... change Version field ...] # Build rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/glib2.spec Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
