On Sunday 15 December 2002 3:01 pm, Alexander Gottwald wrote: | F. Heitkamp wrote: [...] | | To be able to easily switch back to erlier versions I always build | RPMs from the CVS build. The specfile was based on the original SuSE | packages but then heavily modified. With these RPM I was able to rewind | the server packages to a date where the vt-switch did work, but left the | libraries at an up-todate version. | | Unfortunately the building of RPMs does normally take twice the time as | the make; make install build because if some files got renamed or removed | or added, I only notice this at the end of the build and have to alter the
you can re-run 'make' in BUILD directory, and when 'make' is done (no errors)- run $rpm -bi --short-circuit <specfile> if install session succeded - run $rpm -bb --short-circuit <specfile> and you will get binary RPMs. Than delete BUILD directory (if it's not needed for further rebuilds/updates), and that's it. Tested on Mandrake 8.2, works very nice! | spec file and rerun the build. But I think the time I wasted there is | saved when something is broken in the CVS build and I have to go back to an | old version. | | bye | ago -- Best Regards, Vadim Plessky SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released http://svgicons.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
