On 09/23/2010 04:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Bruno Galindro da Costa writes: > >> Sam, >> Â Â Â When you mean 'nuke all other files' what do you want to mean? >> Delete all other files? >> Â Â If I download the source package (e.g. bash-3.2-24.el5.src.rpm >> for Red Hat 5), install it, grab only the spec file and put it in >> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ directory, put all other files in >> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ directory and try to do a rpmbuild -ba >> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bash.spec, could it work? > > Yes. And you will end up with a perfectly valid bash rpm package. > > Unfortunately, you will not be able to install it. That's because the > package will install /bin/bash, and you already have this file installed > by your existing bash rpm. This is the fundamental function of rpm: to > prevent different packages from installing conflicting files and > overwriting each other. > > And not just /bin/bash, but also the corresponding man page, the locale > files, and all other files that you seen when you run "rpm -q -l bash". > > That's why I told you that you need to modify the spec file so that the > final bash binary gets installed as /bin/bash3, so as to not conflict > with your existing bash interpreter, as well as remove all other files > from your bash 3 rpm package, so that the only thing that your > newly-built bash rpm would install is /bin/bash3. If all he wants is the binary and source RPMS, don't bugger the spec file to change the name. Just specify the "--buildroot" option to rpmbuild, e.g.: rpmbuild -ba --buildroot=/tmp/BUILDROOT --target=... That will build the lot, but instead of installing the binaries and such in the system directories before the binary RPMs are built, they'll be put into /tmp/BUILDROOT. When the RPMs are all built, /tmp/BUILDROOT will be deleted by rpmbuild. The resulting source RPM will show up in "~/buildroot/SRPMS" and the binary RPMs (docs, debug, etc.) will be in "~/buildroot/RPMS/(architecture)" (where "(architecture)" is "i386", "x86_64", etc.). No harm, no foul, no mucking up your live system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "If you can't fix it...duct tape it!" -- Tim Allen - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
