Re: [ydl-gen] rpms
Richard June <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 10 June 2009 02:38:23 pm Atro Tossavainen wrote: > Derick, > > > I suppose there's a way to extract or discover the spec file from a .gz > > or bz2 file prepared by a project. In this case, I downloaded the > > latest libgcrypt source from gnupg. So how would I use rpm to extract > > that info? rpm does nothing with it if it does not exist, tar -tzf <FILE> | grep spec should give you a clue as to whether or not a specfile exists. > "man rpmbuild" is your friend :-) > > BUILD OPTIONS > The general form of an rpm build command is > > rpmbuild -bSTAGE|-tSTAGE [ rpmbuild-options > ] FILE ... > > The argument used is -b if a spec file is being used to build > the package and -t if rpmbuild should look inside of a (possibly com- > pressed) tar file for the spec file to use. > > > so: rpmbuild -tb something-1.2.3.tar.gz > might get you going in case the .tar.gz contains a spec file. I think -ta will actually build the packages, IIRC, tb will go so far as building the program. > > > Sub-note, not related to building rpms: > Would all the people who think they can get removed from the list by > posting to the list itself rather than following removal instructions > please cease to exist? The "remove me!" traffic is really quite annoying > and makes me want to do things a conscientious objector can't do, by > definition. Doesn't sound like you're so conscientious. :-D _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'