On Sat, 01.03.14 01:36, Justin Brown (justin.br...@fandingo.org) wrote: > Sorry for this very basic question, but I've hit a wall and can't > figure what I need to do. I'm getting started on trying to do some > systemd development. The most natural way for me to compile systemd is > to use the Fedora RPM spec to create an RPM and install that on a test > machine. I've pulled the systemd-210.tar.xz and used that to build > RPMs based on the Fedora 20 systemd package. That's easy enough. > > The problem that I have is taking the systemd git repository and > turning that into a tarball that the RPM spec file can use. In > particular, it fails -- at least initially -- because there are lots > of files missing in doc/. I'm assuming that I need to run some > commands to prep the repository before creating the tarball. Could > someone enlighten me what steps need to be taken before building the > RPM? > > 1. ?? > 2. tar cJf systemd-210.tar.xz systemd-210/ > 3. mv systemd-210.tar.xz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ > 4. rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/systemd.spec
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd systemd cd systemd ./autogen.sh c make distcheck This will generate the .xz tarball for you. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel