GAIM 0.82

[Olaf Olson]

Thanks, Eddie.

I did as I proposed, based on your instructions, and blasted my GAIM 
upgrade, then reinstalled 0.80 (from the freshrpms upgrade, yum install 
gaim). I then followed your instructions, except that my RPMS directory 
lies down a different path from yours. It worked!

Now, for the questions.

YDL LOVES yum. That said, is there a way to do this with yum, so we stay 
within the knowledge base of YDL. I'm guessing that yum can do all of 
the stuff, once we download the src.rpm, including creating the new rpm 
and installing or updating, so that a user doesn't have to know where 
the RPMS directory really is.

Second, barring that, I am guessing that there is an environment 
variable that decides where to place all of this stuff. to make it 
easier for the user to find it later, for the full install. What is that 
variable, if anyone on this list knows?

Thanks again, for the enlightenment.

Olaf

Eddie Bindt wrote:

>And,
>
>to be not just the guy who says but not explains ...
>
>get the fedora src.rpm
>
>rpm -Uvh gaim<version>.src.rpm
>vi /usr/src/yellowdog/SPEC/gaim.spec
>
>change all "sed -i" occurrences into "sed" because ydl3 sed does not 
>understand "-i", that comes in after fc1 ...
>
>in the top of the spec file, set all extra options to "0" ... Most people 
>do not need them and most of it will not work on ydl3 anyway. If you 
>really need/want them, wait for ydl4 ...
>
>do
>
>rpmbuild -ba gaim.spec
>
>if all is well, your new rpm is build ...
>
>do 
>rpm -Uvh /usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc/gaim<version>ppc.rpm
>
>and all is fine ...
>
>Eddie
>
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