On 11/11/2010 08:16 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Victor Duchovni
<victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote:
Simon also publishes SRPMs, so you can build an equivalent RPM on any
latest/greatest release of an O/S, for which Simon has not yet uploaded
a binary package. You really should always do that, and not trust that
some downloaded collection of bits is not booby-trapped.
This would be no problem except I've never attempted this before and
just did some searching on the web for tutorials I can follow since I
don't have any experience and honestly I couldn't find much. Does
anyone know that level of difficultly involved from turning SRPM's
into a RPM file I can use / distribute to others? I have the time and
dedication but lack the experience and knowledge.
Really not that difficult: you need the dev versions of all software postfix
depends on (mostly openssl AFAIK) and just.. build it.
Building an RMP from an SRPM can be as simple as adding the right options to
rpm.
I haven't used RPM-based software for years, but IIRC it supports direct
building from the package manager, similar to Debian.
--
J.
