On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:56:59 -0500 Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > >The purpose of my question was not to start a debate about the AS SRPM's and Redhat > >being gracious enough to provide them, but rather how to go about building the CD's > >(binaries) from them or any other version's SRPM's. It seems that you would need a > >like system to build from or they would not work. Or am I just not understanding > >the process? > > > >thanks > >Steve > > > Sorry if I came off with a strange attitude, I didn't realize that I was. > > > > Steve, I don't really know what your level of expertise is, so I hope > that I am not being pedantic, > At a very high level, a source RPM is just an archive of the source > tarball of an application, the patches, a configuration > file used by RPM that tells RPM how to unpack the source, apply the > patches, configure the make options > and make the source code into binaries (there are lot's of details and > other little things, but that is the basic gist). > > If you have a RedHat server and you have installed gcc and make and rpm > and rpm-build > you can then get a source RPM file and run "rpmbuild --rebuild > name-of-package.version-number.source.rpm" > and the rpmbuild utility will unpack the source rpm file into it's > constituent parts: > The source, > patches > the build instructions > config files > And then the rpmbuild utility will build the source code into a binary > and package all the resulting files back > up into a binary RPM file that can be installed on other systems that > have the rpm utility. > > You are correct that you need a "like" system to do the builds from. > Usually it is recommended that if you are building a binary RPM for a > distribution > that the SRPM be built into an RPM on the same distribution that you > plan on installing it. > However it doesn't have to be exactly identical, just the libraries that > it dynamically links against > and the directory structure should be the same (and such.) > > From what I have seen from my investigations you could probably start > with RedHat 7.2 > and build the SRPM's one at a time and install them. Of course starting > with things like > gcc, and glibc, and the kernel, and make and such, and working on to > things like > KDE and mozilla last.... > > As far as building the CD's there is a good article here: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6473 > > I was lucky in that I had a RHAS 2.1 server to build all the SRPM's on. > > I found that I could set up an FTP repository and then use a RedHat 7.2 > bootnet floppy to > do a network install of a server, where all the RPM's that were being > installed were from > the RHAS set of RPM's. > > -Ben. I didnt mean that at all, it just seemed the question took off in a direction that i did not intend. Thanks for the info and pointer! Thats exactly what i was looking for. Thanks Steve -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
