> Matt, > > Did you build the RPM file yourself for this package? If so, would you mind > sending me some tech docs if you have any? I am bored, and wanting to build > a package, also include gui front-end. I spent a few hours searching last night, > and every RPM-How to I found kind of stinks. So, if you have anything that you > could part with, I would greatly appreciate it! > > Thanks in advance. >
I'd love to help you build an RPM. I should say that I don't know how to integrate with the gui, except that all the files are in /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt and /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt. If you figure that out, let me know. Building an rpm I can help with... First, I followed the instructions on the courier mail server site so that I can build RPMs as admin, instead of root. That link is http://courier.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#rpm Once that's done, make sure you can build an rpm as admin by downloading a SRC rpm from somewhere and doing: rpm --rebuild RPM-NAME.src.rpm You should end up with stuff in ~/rpm/RPMS/i386 Once that's done, the key to building an RPM is the SPEC file. Because bazooka board was a non-binary program, it was hard to find examples of a spec file. If you're building an RPM for a binary package, you'll probably find that many of the tutorials out there have good working exmples. You can also find a similar package's SRC rpm and do rpm -i RPM-NAME.src.rpm to install the spec file to ~/rpm/SPECS/ and the source files to ~/rpm/SOURCES. I'll attache the contents of my SPEC file below. Once you have a spec file, you build your rpm with the command rpm -ba ~/rpm/SPECS/RPM-NAME.spec Here's a link to a very good (but lengthy) resource online that someone sent me: http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/ The best help I received was by looking at the spec files from other source rpms. I finally found Taco's rpm source for neomail at the pkgmaster site, which was what enabled me to get bboard going. Here's my (simple simple simple) spec file for bazooka board: Note that in here, I did not use /tmp as my build area, I used /home/bboard. Therefore I had to create /home/bboard as root and make it world writeable for just the build process. (the finished product does NOT leave /home/bboard world writeable FYI) ----- BEGIN SPEC FILE ---- %define name bazookaboard %define version 2.5 %define release 1 Name: %{name} Summary: Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board which requirs no database. Version: %{version} Release: %{release} Source: http://bazooka.wox.org:81/download/bazookaboard-2.5.tar.bz2 Group: Applications/Communications License: opensource URL: http://bazooka.wox.org:81 Requires: php >= 4.0 %description Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system with no big frills or fancy profiles. Its strong point is that it does not require any database whatsoever. Bazooka Board uses a flat text file to record all of its data. It allows a single Administrative login so that you can edit/delete posts on the board freely. Setting up Bazooka Board is very simple. %prep %setup %build %install mkdir -p /home/bboard mkdir -p /home/bboard/sitefiles cp -pR * /home/bboard %clean %files %defattr(-,httpd,httpd) /home/bboard/ %changelog * Tue Mar 12 2002 Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - created initial RPM file for cobalt raq 4 ----END SPEC FILE _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
