On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 11:57, Tru64 User wrote: > Hi, > I had a post here few days ago about RPM agony....and > was educated that it was because i was not using > Manrake specs but rather Redhat. > > Now, I am in dare need to make proftpd-1.2.8 rpms for > mandrake. The current available rpm, 1.2.5 does not > have large file support. It started support large > files in version 1.2.6 >
I always do this to create new RPMS: Extract the old.tar.gz and new.tar.gz to directories. Create a diff patch between the new and old. Put this patch into the SOURCE directory and add a corresponding "patch" line in the spec file. Rebuild. The advantage of this method is that you rarely have to touch the original tarball and instead just patch away.
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