?ukasz Jerna? wrote: > Dnia Fri, 13 Feb 2004 7:25:22 -0800 u?yszkodnik <bart at solozone.com> > napisa?: > > >>Luckily SuSE posts its own qt upgrades. do rpm -Uvh >>This make me happy. Nevertheless, otherwise, there are programs which >>turn tar balls INTO source rpms. xxx.yyy.src.rpm-i386. one does 'rpm >>--build <etc>'. I do not know how to use them ; > > [--cut--] > > You have to make such a directory structure: > $HOME/rpm/[SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,RPMS,BUILD] > the you put a src.rpm into SRPMS and use rpmbuild --rebuild name.src.rpm > and if everything works fine you have an ready rpm in RPMS - easy as pie > :) > You can find an src.rpm for qt-3.3.0.040205 (aka FINAL) currently under > ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/ready/SRPMS/ > > but it will move somewhere else ( ftp:// > ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/SRPMS/SRPMS ) in a few days/hours.
This is all good to know; at any rate, if someone wants to build from the tar.gz file, they can try my method (don't forget the multithreading option!). One of the reasons I posted this was for my own reference later, when I might decide to do it again. Gregory Pittman
