On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:42:35PM -0600, Warren Fenlon wrote: > > 1. Is the difference between a tar.gz and a tar.bz2 just different > compression algorithms? Yes, but if the spec file says source tarbal is foo.tar.bz2, you have to give it foo.tar.bz2 or fix the spec file. > 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? If anything goes wrong, it is pretty obvious, namely the package is not built. > 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? Please don't attempt to install them until you are confident you either know or know how to find out how to force a package downgrade or get information from a rpm file yourself (the rpm guide I linked should help with this, particularly sections 3 and 4). I misunderstood what you meant by `I can install rpms' and I don't want you to break your system blindly following something I wrote, no matter how unlikely it is, and being unable to fix it yourself. Instead, configure the new GLib for a non-system location, install it there, and when you want to use it, set up the appropriate environment variables Tristan described. Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
