[Freeipa-users] manually apply patches from upstream

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On pe, 20 tammi 2017, Jeff Clay wrote:
>I found this information here http://www.freeipa.org/page/Build
><http://www.freeipa.org/page/Build> on building, which makes sense
>enough… I setup that environment on my Centos box, tracked down all the
>dependancies to satisfy yum-builddep freeipa-builddep.spec. However,
>when I checkout the 4.4.3 branch, there isn’t a makerpms.sh file so
>that really through me off. When trying to run the makerpms.sh on the
>master branch, it kept erroring at:
>
>checking for POPT... no
>configure: error: Package requirements (popt) were not met:
>
>No package 'popt' found
>
>Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
>Alternatively, you may set the environment variables POPT_CFLAGS
>and POPT_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>
>I have the following installed:
>
>Installed Packages
>popt.x86_64                                                                                                           1.13-16.el7                                                                                                    @anaconda
>popt-devel.x86_64                                                                                                     1.13-16.el7                                                                                                    @base
>popt-static.x86_64                                                                                                    1.13-16.el7
>
>and verified its location
>
>/usr/include/popt.h
>/usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.11.3
>/usr/lib64/libpopt.so
>/usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0
>/usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0.0.0
>
>All of the above was done prior to seeing the last reply giving the
>location of the Centos IPA repo. I’m not the most familiar with git
>stuff, but all i could find in that repo were .patch files. I couldn’t
>locate any actual files other than a readme.
Read https://wiki.centos.org/Sources which describes how to work with
CentOS git repositories. There is an example workflow how to download
patches, spec, and sources, and then rebuild the packages.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy