On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:11 PM, John Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/09/2012 11:55 AM, John Horne wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 11:19 -0400, John Dennis wrote: >> Unfortunately (?) the differences now between Fedora and RHEL, >> especially in terms of Fedora using systemctl rather than SysV startup >> scripts, means that using a Fedora SPEC file to build a package for RHEL >> is generally fraught with problems. >> >> However. I have this afternoon been rebuilding FreeRadius 2.2 using the >> latest CentOS 5.8 freeradius2 RPM SPEC file. (Basically, using a SPEC >> file that you know will work on the server, but replace the actual >> source tarball with the latest available.) In this instance the >> modifications to the SPEC file were minor, but one patch also had to be >> modified. So, again, not trivial, you need to know a bit about SPEC >> files and patching, but it did build. >> >> I should add that for other packages this approach hasn't been too good! >> The differences between code versions can mean that a lot of patches in >> the RPM either become redundant or need modifying. It can add up to a >> lot of work. > > > Yup. It's probably easier to modify an existing spec file for a distribution > than trying to move spec files between distributions. > > If you want the latest version and a set of RPM's is not yet available you > basically have 2 choices: > > 1) local build using configure/make/install > > 2) local RPM build using a tweaked spec file
There's also: (3) use the included specfile in release tarball The bundled distro-specific recipe in 2.2.0 included most part of distro's own recipe, with some changes necessary to build, and was build-tested against RHEL/centos 5 and 6, Ubuntu, and opensuse. So it should just work. -- Fajar - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
