All these years I've avoided building RPMs like the plague - if an RPM
didn't suit me, I'd just build from source in the good old fashioned way.
But I've just started working with amanda and I need to make a small change
so I decided that I'd combine that with learning about RPM building. So I
RTFM and I read about rpm --rebuild <source_package_file>+ and that worked
nicely (after I installed gnuplot and plotutils, although the amanda binary
RPM installed happily without them).
Now to work backwards and try to do the process in stages so that I'll have
a chance to make the changes I need. So, rpm -bp works fine but rpm -bl
fails miserably - I'm guessing that that's not appropriate at this point.
Now it appears that I need to do rpm -bc (effectively make) and rpm -bi
(effectively make install in /var/tmp/amanda-root) and then finally rpm -bb
to build the binary package.
Questions now are if my understanding as outline above is correct, and when
can I make the changes I need to make (just to run configure with some
options). I'm guessing that the -bc stage is where configure is run (or is it
run at all - is part of building an RPM running configure with appropriate
options so that you get the Makefile you want - told you I was an RPM
building newbie).
Niall
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