Re: [Powerpc-utils-devel] Fixes to powerpc-utils.spec.in

[Brad P. <bp...@li...>]

Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Brad Peters wrote:
>> Spec file was quite out of date.  I added some prep/build/install logic,
>> and corrected for man page name changes.
>
> Brad,
>
> How are you building rpms with the spec file?  The current spec file
> is set up
> to build binary rpms.  It appears that your patch wants to build an
> rpm with a
> tarball of the source and have the code built on the target machine.
>
> Perhaps this is the way we should go moving forward.  Previous
> powerpc-utils packages
> were built as binary rpms since the rpm was not shipped with the
> distros and the
> target machine to install these on (i.e. servers) was not expected to
> have a
> compiler installed.  Since powrepc-utils is now shipped with most
> distros it may
> be time to convert the spec file to not build a binary rpm.
>
> I'm not sure about the man page changes, I have had no problem with
> the man pages
> when building a binary rpm.  Perhaps this change is part of the switch
> to not
> building this as a binary package.
>
> -Nathan
>

Hi Nathan,

These spec file changes allow you to run rpmbuild to build the rpm from
source.  All
you need to do now is provide the tarball with a
powerpc-utils-[version].tar.gz name,
copy it into /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (or whereever $_topdir is
pointing), copy the
spec in /usr/src/packages/SPECS, and run:

> rpmbuild --ba --target=ppc /usr/src/packages/SPECS/powerpc-utils.spec

I guess either way will work, but it seems like a good idea to have
rpmbuild do as
much of the work as possible.

Best,

Brad

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