At 11:40 AM +1200 7/18/02, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Bill Michell wrote:
>...snip...
> > I'm trying to build the rpms for the latest courier release version, on a
>> SUSE 7.2 system, following all the instructions I have managed to
>>track down
>> so far...
>>
>> I need to modify the install directories by editing the spec file because,
>> for example, the apache home directory is actually at /usr/local/httpd
>>
>> Then I start to hit problems - the faq doesn't make clear exactly how you
>> "use that spec file to build your RPMs" - I have successfully
>>overwritten my
> > changes now several times. ...snip...
>
>http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html should probably make it more clear
>that the SPEC file in the tarball is for Red Hat only. SuSE uses a
>different file system layout, as you've noticed, ditto Mandrake as others
>have pointed out.
>
>'rpm -ta source.tar.gz' builds both the binary and source packages,
>whereas 'rpm -tb' builds just the binary ones. Either one will work.
>
>You could always make life easy for yourself, and switch to Red Hack. ;-)
It would be really NICE if the (RH) rpm could be available
along WITH the tarball. (hint!)
Newbie that I am, I think that I trust Sam (or whomever
creates the Red Hat RPM) more than I trust myself to determine where
the various files should go.
Patrick Beart
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