[ILUG] Help install package from sources (FC3)

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> but the simplest way to compile from a source rpm
> is to install the rpm with "rpm -Uvh ..." or whatever,
> and then use rpmbuild to work from the SPEC file, something like
> "rpmbuild -ba ../SPECS/xorg-x11.spec"

Even easier:

 	rpmbuild --rebuild <whatever it is>.src.rpm

Which should result in the rpm's being deposited in RPMS/<arch>/ 
- the paths will be printed out at the end of the rpm build 
process.

Some projects include the spec file in their source tar.{gz,bz2}'s, 
for those you can do:

 	rpmbuild -tb <whatever it is>.tar.{gz.bz2}

rpmbuild will do all the rest.

Building rpms, or any software, as root is incredibly bad practice, 
so either give a normal user permissions on /usr/src/rpm, or put the 
following in ~/.rpmmacros for your normal user account:

%_topdir    /whereever/rpm

Eg, I define it to /home/paul/rpm. You'll need to make the same RPMS, 
SRPMS, SOURCES, BUILD and SPECS directories in this directory as 
there are in /usr/src/rpm.

regards,
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