On Tuesday, 16 October 2007, at 11:21:16 (-0400), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > what's the canonical way to build a modified binary rpm from the > original source rpm? i can download the source rpm, install it under > my own "rpms/" directory, then run: > > $ rpmbuild -bp <spec file> > > to run the prep stage. > > at that point, i can mess with the source, but it's not clear what > command to invoke to have the build pick up at that point and finish > off the build to create the (now modified) binary rpm. > > i would have thought this would involve "--short-circuit" in some > way, but that doesn't seem possible. What you're looking for is Mezzanine: http://beta.kainx.org/articles/6 The basic procedure is something like this: 1. mzimport -L foo.src.rpm 2. cd foo 3. mzprep 4. <Make changes to source tree found under work/> 5. mzpatch -n foo-change_description.patch 6. <Add patch to spec file> 7. mzbuild Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." -- Polish Linguist Alfred Korzybski _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
