Re: Building RPMs from tarballs

[bob kehs ksd org]

no. A tar file can generate a bunch of rpms.
most of the time it makes 3.
filename.i386.rpm
filename-devel.i386.rpm
filename.src.rpm

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Zach Frey wrote:

> James Henstridge wrote:
> > 
> > When you do "rpm -ta tarfile.tar.gz", rpm extracts the first .spec file
> > from the archive and puts it in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and puts the archive
> > in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.  It then calls "rpm -ba" on this spec file.
> > If the version number is wrong in the spec file, it won't be able to find
> > the archive properly (because different versions of a package have
> > different names), so the build fails.
> > 
> > You are better off doing this first bit yourself (maybe use mc to poke
> > around in the archive).  Then check the spec file to make sure the version
> > is correct.  Most GNOME packages use a macro to specify the version up the
> > top so this is pretty easy to do.  Then call rpm -ba on it.  If you get
> > any errors, see if you can find where the bug is, fix it and send a note
> > to the author through bugs.gnome.org.
> 
> After the 'rpm -ba something.spec' command, what is the expected result?
> The man page says "Build binary and source packages".  I *think* this
> means
> that I'm supposed to have two .rpm files after 'rpm -ba ...' has
> completed.
> Is my understanding correct?
> 
> I do not seem to be getting either (a) a .rpm file or (b) an installed
> RPM
> per 'rpm -qa | grep <name>' after doing 'rpm -ba foo.spec'.  Am I doing
> something wrong, or is this a bug I should report?
> 
> 
> Zach
> 
> 
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