[FC4] Thunderbird-1.5 rpm?

[Paul Howarth]

taharka wrote:
> How do,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:11 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Also, you may want to browse the articles at;
> www.fedoranews.org/articles There's a treasure trove of info there :-)
> Should be an article regarding setting up an RPM build directory there.

Here's one I prepared earlier:

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/CreateRPMBuildEnvironment

Doesn't say much more than what Stuart posted though.

Paul.