compiling src.rpm
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Tue Nov 3 21:03:43 UTC 2009
Martín Marqués wrote:
> I'm having problems with ktorrent crashing all the time and I wanted
> to try a patch I found in bugs.kde.org which may fix this problem.
>
> The thing is that compilation of src.rpm isn't what it used to be.
>
> Before I would install the src.rpm, go the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE/ and
> modify the source, or add a patch (adding it in the spec file) and
> then just run rpmbuild -ba my.spec and I would have the new rpm. This
> doesn't work anymore.
>
> How can I compile a src.rpm now a days?
By default, the src RPM is installed in ~/rpmbuild now instead of
/usr/src/redhat (with "~" representing the home directory of the user
that installed the source RPM).
Other than that, everything should be the same.
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