open SRPMS

[Magnus Andersen]

How should you edit the source in SOURCES if it is a tar file?  

Magnus

On 8/14/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> lasa enlightened us with the following gems on 08/13/2005 09:18 PM:
> > it little bit advanced. Pls express no 2 little bit
> >
> > On 8/14/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> >
> >>lasa enlightened us with the following gems on 08/13/2005 08:55 PM:
> >>
> >>>can any one tell me to open SRPMS in best way step by step to edit
> >>>those. Any URL regarding above.
> >>
> >>I think you'll find I answered this about half an hour ago.
> >>but, in case that sounded stroppy...
> >>do this as follows... (all done as a normal user, NOT ROOT!)
> >>1. create the needed directory structure:
> >># mkdir -p ~/REDHAT/{RPMS,SRPMS,SPECS,BUILD,SOURCES}
> >>2. edit/create ~/.rpmmacros so that it contains the line
> >>%_topdir        /home/your_username/REDHAT
> use a text editor to create a file in your home directory called .rpmmacros
> make sure it has the %_topdir line in it as above.
> 
> it is this line that tells RPM to install source rpms in your ~/REDHAT/
> directory structure instead of /usr/src/redhat (which would require root
> privileges).
> 
> 
> >>3. then install your source RPMS using your unprivileged account.
> >># rpm -ivh my_package-1.0-1.src.rpm
> 
> any clearer?
> 
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Magnus Andersen
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Walker & Associates, Inc.