[Gimp-print-devel] spec files to create gimp-print and ghostscript RPMs

[Mark H. <be...@uk...>]

I've created the following:

  http://www.beanz.uklinux.net/download/ghostscript-5.50.spec
  http://www.beanz.uklinux.net/download/gs.spec.diff
  http://www.beanz.uklinux.net/download/gimp-print.spec

They are basically spec files for building RPMs from print-3.1.3.tar.gz.
The .diff file is a patch against the original RedHat 6.2 ghostscript spec
file.

To build binary RPMs, you'll need to do the following:

Get print-3.1.3.tar.gz and put it in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
Copy gimp-print.spec and gs.spec.diff to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
Install ghostscript-5.50-1.src.rpm (the RH 6.2 ghostscript source RPM).
Apply the patch to the spec file. That is:

  cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
  patch -p0 <gs.spec.diff

Rebuild the RPMs. That is:

  rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ghostscript-5.50.spec
  rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/gimp-print.spec

You should be left with source/binary RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/ and
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$ARCH resp.

I've been a little lazy and not changed the name of the ghostscript package
(or the version) so you might have to use --force to install it over the
RedHat ghostscript RPM.

Hopefully someone with a faster/cheaper net connection will make source/binary
RPMs available?

Cheers,
 Mark.