Thanks perfect. On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 7:38 PM Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Bill Cunningham wrote: > > On 12/11/2022 6:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> For source rpms you need to setup a ~/.rpmmacros file to tell it > >> where to put the unpacked source, then a command like > > The default is ~/rpmbuild. There's no need to create > ~/.rpmmacros unless you need to change the defaults. > > >> Dealing with source rpms the first time is always a confusing > >> experience, but you can probably find better documentation > >> than this short message. > > > > I do certainly appreciate this Tom. It does look confusing. I will work > on > > it though. > > If you simply want to view the source of the Fedora package, > you can do that at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cdrkit > (now that you know the source rpm can -- and in this case, > does -- differ from the binary rpm). Looking at the files > this way may be sufficient, depending on your end goal. > > If you do want the source locally, an alternative to > downloading the SRPM and using rpm to "install" it is the > fedpkg command. > > To download the package source for cdrkit you would run: > > fedpkg clone -a cdrkit > > This clones the git repository you see at the URL above. > From there, you can change to the cdrkit directory, switch > to the f37 (or f36) branch and extract the source: > > cd cdrkit > fedpkg switch-branch f37 > fedpkg prep > > Now the cdrkit-1.1.11 directory will be present and contains > the upstream source along with any Fedora patches applied. > > -- > Todd > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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