Brook wanted! (was: Re: Re[6]: [bt-devel] CALL FOR TESTING)

[Brook Humphrey]

On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:47 am, you wrote:
> > > There are now 2 spec files, one in bibletime and one in bibletime-doc.
> > > Could you please update them to reflect the split in 2 separate
> > > modules? And: can you create srpms (and mandrake binaries) once I
> > > release 1.1? That would be a GREAT help, since I am a newbie with
> > > packaging. I will try to create a SuSE rpm from the srpm. Does the srpm
> > > already contain additional files like the sword .conf files that we
> > > add?
> > >
> > > Martin
> >
> > Yes I can do the 1.1 rpm's for mandrake. Just ot make sure it's nothing
> > on my machine I reinstalled mandrake 8.2 this morning. I report back
> > within an hour or so to let you know if it works.
>
> Cool! Could you update the .spec.in files in cvs please?

Ok I don't mind doing this but I don't really know how to use cvs. I can 
download the source tree and update it but I don't know how to make changes 
and upload them.

If you want to show me how I will try or I can post my send my spec file as 
an atachment

>
> Does the srpm already contain the added .conf files?
Yes the srpms contain all that is needed to rebuild the rpm.

>
> What do I need to do to create a binary from a srpm?
>
on your platform you should be able to type this

rpm -ba --rebuild foo.src.rpm

this will unpack it, rebuild it, and clean up afterself when it is done. It 
will leave a srcrpm and a rpm built for your system.


Do you have your system set up to compile rpm's as user and not root?

> Martin

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