Re: building devel packages

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:38:53 -0700, J. Horta wrote:

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:24:42 +0100, David Bolt wrote:

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, J. Horta <bite@xxxxxxx> wrote:-

Hum, the spec file is already configured for a devel subpackage
since it contains a tag

%package devel

followed by all the pesky .h files and static libs. OK I'll bite,
how does one use this spec file to make a blabla-devel-0.xxx.rpm
file like the rpm docs suggest?

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-package-directive.html

Have you tried rpmbuild?

If I was building the package, and the source was a .src.rpm or .spm,
I'd follow this sequence:

1, cp <source.archive> /usr/src/packages/SOURCES
2, cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES
3, rpmbuild --rebuild <source.archive>

OTOH, if the source archive is a .tgz, .tar.gz or .tar.bz2, I'd do this
instead:

1, cp <source.archive> /usr/src/packages/SOURCES
2, cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES
3, rpmbuild -ta <source.archive>

If the spec file has the required bits to build a devel package, you
should end up with three RPMs build:

/usr/src/packages/SRPMS/$NAME-$VERSION-$RELEASE.src.rpm
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/$ARCH/$NAME-$VERSION-$RELEASE.$ARCH.rpm
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/$ARCH/$NAME-devel-$VERSION-$RELEASE.$ARCH.rpm


Regards,
David Bolt

Thanks

No I didn't (well, I tried but couldn't figure it out). With this
added info I'll give it a go. BTW I did do a ./configure bla bla
and a make followed by a checkinstall as root. This had the effect
of building a single rpm that included the devel package files in
addition to the regular install. I then (of course) forced an install
and broke my dependancies. I'll give the above a shot and let u know.


Success!! The above didn't work as advertized exactly. rpmbuild complained
of some fields being blank in the spec file. So I unpacked the tar ball,
configured the package (changing the --prefix and the package name)
re-tared the mess and followed the steps above. This work perfectly
producing separate rpm's. Thanks again.

.

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