On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:07:22 -0300 "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried to RTFM about rpm, but find it thoroughly confusing. Any advice/help would be truly appreciated. To create an rpm build directory in your /home/you open a terminal and enter: mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS/i586,RPMS/noarch,SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,tmp} This will create the necessary folder and subfolders. You now need to create 2 files to also go in /home/you. Open the editor of your choice and enter: (replace my personal info with yours) %_topdir /home/charles/rpm %_tmppath /home/charles/rpm/tmp %_signature gpg %_gpg_name Charles A Edwards (pgp) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> %distribution Mandrake %vendor MandrakeSoft save the file to /home/you as .rpmmacros (note the leading period) For the 2nd file enter: buildarchtranslate: i386: i586 buildarchtranslate: i486: i586 buildarchtranslate: i586: i586 buildarchtranslate: i686: i586 and save the file to /home/you as .rpmrc (note the leading period) You are now ready to install, build, rebuild,...etc src.rpms or even make your own from scratch. in /home/you . The script I used are just the basic/generic Mandrake scripts. You can get fancier and more elaborate but for just personal usage the above are quite adequate. Charles Remember; manual were written by the informed to throughly confuse the uniformed. -- When does later become never? ------------------------- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-3mdk -------------------------
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