Looking for steps to build samba as RPM.

[Kenny Dinh]

Actually, you might be able to make use of the samba 4.3.12 src rpm

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/23/SRPMS/s/samba-4.3.12-1.fc23.src.rpm


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Kenny Dinh <kdinh at peaxy.net> wrote:

> I don't know how other people does it.  I normally use the src rpm from
> fedora.  After installing the src.rpm, I would get the default samba*.spec
> file.  That spec file is the baseline from which I started adding changes
> to my liking.  If you are using samba 4.3.11, then the samba src rpm from
> Fedora 23 seems to work best.
>
>  http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/
> Server/source/SRPMS/s/
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Hemanth Thummala <
> hemanth.thummala at nutanix.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Can some one point me the steps if they are documented somewhere. We have
>> our own tarball and would like to convert this to RPM. We are using samba
>> 4.3.11 stack.
>> I have tried “makerpms.sh”. But this resulting in some errors.
>>
>>
>> [hthummala at hemanth-thummala RHEL]$ sh ./makerpms.sh.tmpl
>>
>> Supported RPM version [4.8.0]
>>
>> ~/samba-asterix-1-copy2/packaging/RHEL ~/samba-asterix-1-copy2/packag
>> ing/RHEL
>>
>> ~/samba-asterix-1-copy2/packaging/RHEL
>>
>> ~/samba-asterix-1-copy2/packaging/RHEL ~/samba-asterix-1-copy2/packag
>> ing/RHEL
>>
>> chown: cannot access `samba-PVERSIONPREVISION': No such file or directory
>>
>> ln: creating symbolic link `samba-PVERSION': File exists
>>
>>
>> I must be missing some pre-req steps. Please let me know if anyone has
>> successfully built on CentOS.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Hemanth.
>>
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