[FC4] Thunderbird-1.5 rpm?

M. Lewis cajun at cajuninc.com
Thu Mar 2 21:11:13 UTC 2006


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:07 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Mainly for protection against poorly-written specfiles and Makefiles,
> which could end up clobbering bits of your system if you build packages
> as root. By building packages as a regular user, you won't be
> overwriting any files that you don't have write permission for. It's
> even worth considering creating a separate account just for
> package-building.
> 
> Paul.
> 

Thanks Paul for the good explanation.


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