srpm for 2.2.0

Tom Diehl tdiehl at pil.net
Wed May 9 22:09:33 GMT 2001


On Thu, 10 May 2001, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Tom Diehl wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Michael Ott wrote:
> >
> > > hallo!
> > >
> > > do anybody know, where i can get the soure-rpm for 2.2.0
> >
> > In the tarball. Do "rpm -ta tarball_name" will build the whole thing, both
> > srpm and binary or at least it should. I have not tried it yet. It is on
> > the list for later today. I really want to try 2.2. Also if what you asked
> > for is what you really want try -ts. It should give you just the srpm.
> > Man rpm for more info. :-)
> >
>
> This presumes that there is a .spec file in the tar.gz, in samba's case
> it will pick a random spec-file from the appliance packaging directory.
> Instead, download the tarball, cd to packaging, run bin/update-pkginfo
> {version} {release} and then run 'sh makerpms.sh' in the RedHat subdir
> (presuming RedHat).  This will build both a binary and source RPM.

You are correct. I found this out about an hour ago. Sorry.

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