Re: Building rpms from tarballs

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

If the build was successful, then the RPM should have been placed in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/arch, where arch is i386 if you are using an x86
processor.  Take a look through the output of the build, and see if there
are any errors.  It won't beep at you or anything if there are errors --
it just won't produce any rpms.

I don't know about the rpm in /tmp.  Take a look at the timestamp to see
if it was actually created by the build, and was not just downloaded at
some other time.

James.

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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 alanr@stateind.com wrote:

> I read the earlier messages about building RPMs from tar-balls and decided to give it a try with gnome-core-1.0.9.tar.gz which I had downloaded a little while back. Anyway, I executed `rpm -ta gnome-core-1.0.9.tart.gz` and waited for a very long time. When it was all over, I found the source tree under /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gnome-core-1.0.9 and and rpm labelled gnome-core-1.0.9-4.i386.rpm in /tmp. There was no *-devel-* to be found. Also, when I tried to execute rpm -Uvh gnome-core-1.0.9-4.i386.rpm, it said simply that it could not install it like this....
> 
> error: gnome-core-1.0.9-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> During the rpm building, there were no obvious errors and it seemed to end peacefully enough. However, since this is the first time I've tried it, I don't know what it should say. 
> 
> I would like to suggest that the procedure from converting gnome tar-balls to RPMs be added to the FAQ. (I looked for it and didn't find it. Did I miss it?)
> 
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