FC4, FC6, F7 what works, and don't

[Todd Zullinger]

Eric Wood wrote:
> Whoa, stop right there.  If you're missing something at least do an
> attempt to finding a srpm of the package you need. Google for "fftw
> srpm".  I came up with
> http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/fftw3/info.html
> 
> I'd try grabbing the
> http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc6/i386/SRPMS.dries/fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> package install it and build your one rpm like so:
> 
> # wget
> http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc6/i386/SRPMS.dries/fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm
> # rpm -Uvh fftw3-3.1.1-1.fc6.rf.src.rpm

Where's the rpm --checksig to verify the gpg sig? :)

> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> # rpmbuild -bb fftw3
> # cd ../RPMS  (if the build goes correcting (writing rpm....))
> # rpm -Uvh ffw3* --test  (hopefully this thing build the -devel rpm
> simultaneously too).

It's dangerous to build packages as root.  It's a practice that should
not be encouraged.  Build as a regular user (not even as your normal
user account, ideally).  To setup the config and dir structure needed
to build as a regular user, install the rpmdevtools package and then
run (as the user you want to build as):

$ rpmdev-setuptree

This will create ~/rpmbuild with the needed subdirectories.

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