[ydl-gen] rpms

[Richard June]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 02:38:23 pm Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> Derick,
>
> > I suppose there's a way to extract or discover the spec file from a .gz
> > or bz2 file prepared by a project. In this case, I downloaded the
> > latest libgcrypt source from gnupg. So how would I use rpm to extract
> > that info?
rpm does nothing with it if it does not exist, tar -tzf <FILE> | grep spec 
should give you a clue as to whether or not a specfile exists.

> "man rpmbuild" is your friend :-)
>
>    BUILD OPTIONS
>        The general form of an rpm build command is
>
>        rpmbuild -bSTAGE|-tSTAGE [      rpmbuild-options
>         ] FILE ...
>
>        The  argument  used  is  -b  if a spec file is being used to build
> the package and -t if rpmbuild should look  inside  of  a  (possibly  com-
> pressed)  tar file for the spec file to use.
>
>
> so:	rpmbuild -tb something-1.2.3.tar.gz
> might get you going in case the .tar.gz contains a spec file.
I think -ta will actually build the packages, IIRC, tb will go so far as 
building the program.

>
>
> Sub-note, not related to building rpms:
> Would all the people who think they can get removed from the list by
> posting to the list itself rather than following removal instructions
> please cease to exist?  The "remove me!" traffic is really quite annoying
> and makes me want to do things a conscientious objector can't do, by
> definition.

Doesn't sound like you're so conscientious. :-D