Re: Compiling RPMS for RedHat 7.3 from CVS Source

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 03:20, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Mark Belfanti wrote:

> The makerpms.sh script is meant for use in building RPMS from an official
> source release. I actually don't see makerpms.sh in CVS, only
> makerpms.sh.tmpl, which is a template file, in which the PVERSION and
> PRELEASE variables get replaced for a release.

Take a look at the quick shell script in packaging/bin/. It reads the
.tmpl files and makes them work.

> 
> > I am not really sure where or how the PVERSION variable gets set. I
> > assume that it is a file somewhere stating the current build version or
> > what it should be
> > Do I have to edit something somewhere to make this work? I have looked
> > through the newsgroups, RTFM etc but can't see anything to point me in
> > the right direction.
> 
> I have added a makerpms-cvs.sh script to the Mandrake packaging directory,
> and it may just work for the Redhat directory also. 
> >
> > Can you please tell me where I should look, what I can do to work this out.
> >
> 
> Try this (when in the Redhat directory):
> 
> $ cp ../Mandrake/makerpms-cvs.sh .
> $ sh makerpms-cvs.sh 2.2.6
> 
> That *should* build you an RPM with a version of 2.2.6 and a release
> number of 0.<date>, so that you know the date of your cvs snapshot, and
> can easily upgrade to a 1 release.
> 
> I would actually reccomend Mandrake over Redhat for serious samba use (but
> I am biased ;-)).

Let's not get started on this....

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