Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Re: Packaging libgig 0.7.1

[Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...>]

Hi Christian,

>
> I felt forced to add support for generating Debian packages as well. ;)
> I commited it couple of minutes ago.
>
> Rui, could you please also put a line into README how to generate the
> RPMs? I just left a TODO there, hoping you will do it. Right after that
> I will roll the tarball and generate the .deb files and upload them
> together with your RPMs.
>

To generate the RPMs you have to be on a RPM based system/distro, or at
least have the rpmbuild tool properly configured. I take my knowledge
because all my boxes have RPM based distros (suse, mdk and fedora). But
things may differ

The steps are simple:

1) Get .spec file generated by ./configure. Edit it as appropriate.

Then, as root:

2) Copy the source tarball to "/usr/src/<rpmdir>/SOURCES" directory.

3) Build the rpm(s) by invoking 'rpmbuild -bb <specfile>' from the command
line.

On success, the resulting rpm(s) can usually be found under the proper
"/usr/src/<rpmdir>/RPMS/<arch>" directory. The recently built package(s)
aren't installed by default.

The names for the sub-directories <rpmdir> and <arch> depends on the
distro or rpm installation. For example, on SUSE we have
<rpmdir>="packages", on Mandrake <rpmdir> is "RPM" and for redhat/fedora
<rpmdir> always equals "redhat".

As you see, I don't feel very sure about writing /so/ specific
instructions, as YMMV.

Feel free to drop yourself a line on the README file. At the moment I
don't have access to make it right, maybe tonight.

Cheers.
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rn...@rn...