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On Wednesday 12 February 2003 05:11 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Here is the Mandrake guide to making RPMs
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/
This is a very good guide, and a year into my learning process, I find I get
more and more out of it every time I refer to it.
It really is a good idea to get into the good habit of building rpms in your
home directory, in userspace instead of as root. Many casual rpm builders
build as root, and that is okay if you occasionally rebuild a src.rpm for
yourself, but there are a lot of reasons why it is a bad habit. One reason
is that if what you are building is already installed on your machine and the
packager did not set the {buildroot} properly, it could screw up your
installation. This is especialy important for base packages like glibc and
X.
If you decide to go this route, read carefully the section on setting up your
build environment. I also wrote a tutorial, mostly for my own consumption for
when 9.1 came out, about how to optimize a mandrake system for a particular
architecture. It may help you understand how to set up the build environment
in your home directory.
http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/mandrake_a_la_gentoo.pdf
Happy building!
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Greg
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