-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: | On Monday 21 January 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: |> Gene Heskett wrote: |>> I had enough livna troubles to last me a while when I was running FC6. If |>> I have to move outside the auspices of the rpm packagers, then I've found |>> I'm far better off to just build the tarball and be done with it. Which |>> is what I did with mplayer itself, but not its plugin, which was |>> available. |>> |>> Thanks Mikkel. |> Rather then building directly from the source, you may want to |> consider downloading the source RPM and building from that. That |> way, you are still using the package manager. That way, it will |> hopefully warn you when an update is going to break things. |> |> I have done this for a lot of packages. The only drawback is that |> when you go to update, you may have to remove the packages yourself |> before you can update to the next release of Fedora. It helps if you |> keep a record of the packages you build, both to help when you |> upgrade, and so you know what you are going to have to build again. |> Because I build RPMs as a user, I normally have the ones I build in |> my home directory, so it is easy. If I want to use the same version, |> I just rebuild the package from the source RPM, using the updated |> libraries. If not, the old spec file is a good place to start if I |> can not get a source RPM for the new version. |> |> Mikkel | | Unforch, I have yet to come onto a tutorial on writing spec files that | explains it in sufficient detail that _I_ can understand it. If I want an | rpm, I may use checkinstall, but its so bloody broken that by the time I get | a good rpm built with it, the spec file, and its dependency list are badly | broken. I built a gutenprint that ran my printer perfectly, but had to use | smarts ability to freeze a version in place else the updates from FC6 | insisted on installing gimp-print-4.2.7, a 5 year old orphaned for the last 4 | years package, over the top of it. My printer is an antique Epson C82, but | gimp-print-4.2.7 never heard of it other than as a generic. | | Now if someone were to write a tutorial on spec file's, starting at the | McGuffy's Readers level, I MIGHT be able to do that. If it exists, I haven't | found it, and I have asked here for guidance several times. | | Thanks Mikkel. | Does this help Gene? Building Packages in Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide - -- ~ David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkeVE/UACgkQAO0wNI1X4QEI5QCgjycdxfdRMCqSAEkWRVqKx0Eh CoAAoLS6N66tRBKiLahBgOF291qS/RrW =66yy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
