Re: Building rpms from tarballs

[HpG <gisler ntb ch>]

Hi
On my system, the rpm are always put into /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386
(on SuSE)
I am building my rpms always with 'rpm -tb package.tar.gz' (no need for
a source
package). This yelds only the 'package.i386.rpm'.
The only thing else you have to know is the order of compiling and
installation
of the packages, if you want to build them from scratch.
http://www.gnome.org/start/gnometar.phtml
As far as I can tell, most (all?) of the tar-packages are specified to
install
the binary into /usr. If you want to change that, -> edit the *.spec
file.

Hanspeter



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?)