On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Gary Smith <gary.sm...@holdstead.com> wrote: > Carlos, > > You might want to put together a build environment and roll your own. I tend > to do this for a lot of software (as I need to application specific business > required patches to several packages). In most cases, you can easily setup a > chroot environment of some type, download the source RPM (instead binary), > and then compile it. In many cases, when I need to go from 2.6.x up to the > next version, I just download the new source file, edit my spec file for > postfix, change the version number, run a single command to build it, wait > about 4 minutes, then I have a package. (it's easier than it sounds once > you've done it a few times).
Gary - I have never done this before for any application so I would like to try this with you advice. Where do I start and is there a guide or step by step instructions I would take in order to create my own 2.6.5 RPM package? I am guessing I need to go to www.postfix.org and download the source code: http://mirrors.rootservices.net/postfix/official/postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz Is that the correct file I would need to build from or do I need a source rpm file?
