On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: > Hi list. > > I tried to find how to do this on my own, but failed - I wonder if it can be > done at all : > > I have a SPEC file that I use to build an RPM from a CVS source. at the top of > the spec file I have a %define which says > %define use_cvs 1 > nowdown the file,in the %prep stage it checks that define and either checks > out the CVS version and package it into the SOURCES directory, or %setup the > source archives (which were created from the CVS in the last build from CVS). > after the build finishes RPM packs the source archives and spec file into the > source RPM. now I want to rebuild the software from the source RPM in another > computer, one that does not have access to the CVS (or I simply want to build > exactly the version that is in the source RPM), so I have to rpm -i the > source RPM and then manually edit the spec file to change use_cvs to 0. > is there a way to get RPM (or using some script) to automaticly change the > %define to 0 for the copy of the SPEC file that goes into the source RPM > package ?
Make a command-line option to set 'use_cvs' to 1, and make the default 0. I think that the package spec should not "know" it is in a CVS version. Have a look at the qmail srpm from: ftp://ftp.rpmhelp.net/pub/Mandrake/djbware/8.2/SRPMS/qmail-1.03-20rph.src.rpm For sample of command-line manipulations. However, I believe that such things should be left for external scruipts outside the rpm spec. IMHO a source rpm is something that should be able to be built autonomously. In the ivritex rpm the rpm spec is created from rpm.spec.in . One oof the things set there is the version number (because it is used in some other places in the makefile, and we wanted to update just one place). So I can simply run: rm -fv ivritex.spec *.tgz make VERSION="$REAL_VERSION"`date +%Y%m%d` rpm to create tarballs and binary RPMs. I still haven't automated it, though... -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
