Re: [e-users] EFL 1.27.0 creation of RPM using spec/efl.spec.in

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 06:03:26 +0100 Phil Otken <[email protected]> said:

no idea what this efl.spec.in is... the http ref is a placeholder website
(domain squatter).

but it seems you need to learn how to build packages - specifically rpm pkgs
and they use .spec files to describe the packages metadata, how to build it and
where/what files are installed and how they may be split into sub-packages.

i suspect you probably need to start with tutorials on how to build rpm's...
it's pretty easy. last time i did rpms was a few decades back but it's not
hard and i picked it up with no manuals or tutorials - i simply read existing
spec files and went "aaaah that's the field i need" etc. - so it's not hard. :)

> *Background*: I am in the process of re-building an Oracle Linux 9.3 server
> <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rebuilding-linux-server-index-articles-overlogix-9tmvf>
> (this is a downstream RHEL derivative, stable and conservative), got it to
> compile yesterday and stopped there to *RTFM*.
> 
> Currently installed are the latest Fedora packages as a temporary measure
> while the build issues are sorted out. They work OK, but depend on Wayland,
> and freeze the whole computer if the KVM switch is used. Undesirable,
> unstable, hence the build.
> 
> *Issue I need help with*: I see the file *spec/efl.spec.in
> <http://efl.spec.in>*, tried to find instructions to use it, didn't find
> any. I gather this file is a template used to process somehow into a usable
> *efl.spec*, which can in turn be used to process to a binary RPM package,
> and possibly also a source RPM package, very desirable. I also suspect that
> meson is used somehow to process this file, couldn't find appropriate
> material after a lot of searching. Bard and ChatGPT confidently
> hallucinated on the topic.
> 
> Does anyone on this list have this type of packaging experience? How can
> this file be used, and what are the steps? Please dumb it down for me to
> fifth grader level; my expertise is elsewhere.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> - Phil
> 
> Phil Otken
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