[FC4] Thunderbird-1.5 rpm?

[M. Lewis]

Stuart Sears wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:00, M. Lewis decided we wanted to hear the 
> following:
>> Thanks Taharka. Had I ever created an rpm, that would probably be a good
>> solution. Unfortunately I haven't and I didn't see any instructions
>> there for doing so. If you have a pointer to some instructions that
>> would be helpful.
> the instructions are at (nearly) the same location as the rpm...
> http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/
> including the source files you need to create your rpm.
> 
> but in brief...
> This all applies to a user called 'stuart'. You'll need to adjust it for a 
> *non-privileged* user on your system. Do NOT build rpms as the 'root' user.
> you can also use a directory name other than REDHAT. that's just what I tend 
> to use. The other directory names (SPECS etc) are not customisable without a 
> greate deal of messing about.
> 
> 1. create a file in your home directory called .rpmmacros
> it should contain:
> %_topdir /home/stuart/REDHAT
> 
> 2. now create a basic build tree
> mkdir -p /home/stuart/REDHAT/{RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,BUILD,SPECS}
> 
> 3. put everything in place:
> put  the thunderbird.spec file into /home/stuart/REDHAT/SPECS
> cp the 3 source files thunderbird-1.5.tar.gz, thunderbird.png and 
> thunderbird.desktop into /home/stuart/REDHAT/SOURCES
> 
> 4. now use the thunderbird.spec file to build the rpm:
> rpmbuild -bb /home/stuart/REDHAT/SPECS/thunderbird.spec
> 
> which, if all goes well, should create loads of output and then eventually 
> write the file
> /home/stuart/REDHAT/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.5-1.i386.rpm
> 
> ps setting up the build environment as in steps 1 and 2 above can also be done 
> by using yum to install a development-specific rpm.
> yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
> and then fedora-buildrpmtree
> I've just always done this manually...
> Regards
> 
> Stuart
> 

Very cool. Thanks Stuart. One question, why do not build the rpm as the 
root user?

Thanks again,
M

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