[kde-doc-english] Using rpmbuild to build rpms from tar.gz files

[Steven Linehan]

To whoever answer this:
 
Refer to http://kwave.sourceforge.net/doc/en/building_rpm_from_targz.html....CAN YOU HELP ME?

 
There is something missing in this procedure: I am not building kwave, but this is a prototype - I wish to build rpms of a variety of tar.gz files that are needed to install gnumeric.



1. Go to your RPM "topdir". This normally is /usr/src/redhat for the redhat distribution or /usr/src/packages if you have the SuSE distribution. 
%cd /usr/src/redhat

2. Put the tar.gz archive into the SOURCES subdirectory (you have to replace "somewhere" with the real directory where the files are, of course). 
%cp /somewhere/kwave-XXX.tar.gzSOURCES

3. Extract the spec file from the archives and put it into the SPEC subdirectory. 
%tar -xOzf SOURCES/kwave-XXX.tar.gz\*.spec>SPECS/kwave.spec

4. Let rpm do the compile job and generate the rpm of Kwave. If you only want to make a binary package, you can specify -bb instead of -ba, or just -bs to build only a source package. 
%rpmbuild -bb SPECS/kwave.spec

 
5. If everything was ok, you can install the binary rpm of Kwave, it will be in the BUILD directory. If you already have a version of Kwave installed, please remove it first or use the parameter -U instead of -i for upgrading instead of installing. 
%rpm -ivh BUILD/[arch]/kwave-XXX.[arch].rpm

The "arch" string should be specified earlier I think
and the arch string does not exist as a dir under BUILD. These 
steps created /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/intltool-0.37.1-1.noarch.rpm

What's Missing??

Steve Linehan
 		 	   		  
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