Compiling the source RPM file.

[Rajat Sharma]

If you already have a source rpm, rather use rpmbuild to automatically
apply patches and build rpm. When you install the source rpm, it will
create a directory hierarchy in your home directory something like this:
BUILD
SOURCES
SPEC
RPMS

SOURCES will hold the tar ball and SPEC holds rpm specification file, which
is the main file used for building rpm use this file and feed it to
rpmbuild command.

# rpmbuild -ba <spec file>

Also refer to maximum rpm, the ultimate reference about rpms:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/. I bet you will get everything you need to know
about rpm here.

-Rajat

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:55 PM, K Arun Kumar <ziconium03 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 12:45 +0530, Rahul Bedarkar wrote:
> > Can you write command here, how you have applied patches ?
> >
> I went into the extracted tarball and tried applying patches one after
> another like this -
>   patch -p1 < ../<patchname>
> > Packages (.deb, .rpm and others) meant to build and installed
> automatically.
> >
> > You can build and install it by following command
> >
> > $sudo rpm -i <package-name>
> I am just interested in fully-patched source I want to compile and
> install it myself without any rpm tools - more clearly -
> I want to -
> (1) extract the source tarball available with the rpm package
> (2) patch this source with all the packages available in the rpm package
> (3) configure , build and install this source at *custom* location
>
> ** I do not want to use any rpm tools for this **
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:51 AM, K Arun Kumar <ziconium03 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I have a rpm for a module  which I extracted like -
> > > rpm2cpio numactl-2.0.7-3.el6.src.rpm | cpio -idmv
> > >
> > > then I extracted the source like -
> > > tar -xzvf numactl-2.0.7-3.tar.gz
> > >
> > > then I tried to apply all the patches to available with
> > > this rpm to the extracted source which results in Hunks and
> > > rejections.
> > >
> > > I want to apply all patches and compile the source and get
> > > an exe. I am not much aware of the rpm build procedure
> > >
> > > I want to do similar thing to kernel source also
> > >
> > > Please help me...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Arun
> > >
> Thanks,
> Arun
> > >
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