[AG-TECH] rpm vs. rpmbuild with Core 2

[Joshua M. Brown]

Douglas Kosovic wrote:

>>On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:08:05AM -0500, Joshua M. Brown wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>...er, how does that effect the rpm build scripts if i'm trying to build
>>>AG2.2 on Fedora Core 2? The reason i ask is to avoid beating my head
>>>against any walls that i don't have to :)
>>>      
>>>
>>Install rpm-build:
>>
>>yum install rpm-build
>>
>>and use rpmbuild --rebuild instead of rpm --rebuild:
>>
>>rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm
>>
>>This change was made many years ago, by the way.  Red Hat 9 and 8.0,
>>at least, need "rpmbuild" instead of just "rpm" for building packages.
>>    
>>
>
>In the doc directory of CVS:
>  http://fl-cvs.mcs.anl.gov/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/AccessGrid/doc/
>
>You will find a document called "AG-Linux-Build-HOWTO" which describes how
>to build on Linux.
>
>There are issues building AG 2.2 from SRPMs, so you need to follow the
>procedure in that document.
>
>For Fedora Core 2, you will need to do the following steps:
>
>1. copy packaging/linux/fedora/fc2/AccessGrid.spec.in to
>packaging/linux/rpm/AccessGrid.spec.in
>2. apply the following patch:
>
>http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/unstable/patches/agtk2.2fc2.patch
>3: If your want Alsa 1.0 sound driver support, apply the patch from:
>   http://www.ap-accessgrid.org/linux/rat/index.html
>
>The new AccessGrid.spec contains support for the new XDG menus used in
>Fedora Core 2, rather than the legacy Gnome/KDE.
>The agtk2.2fc2.patch hasn't been added to CVS yet and fixes a couple of
>problems.
>
>wxPython can be obtained from Fedora Extras at http://www.fedora.us
>
>You can build xawtv from the Fedora Core1 SRPM by issuing
>'rpmbuild --rebuild xawtv-*src.rpm'.
>
>There is a CVS RPM snapshot available at:
>  http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/unstable/RPMS/
>
>Note: There are issues with the version in CVS at the moment and I wouldn't
>recommend it for a production system at this time.
>
>Cheers,
>Doug
>
>  
>
Thank you, Doug - that is right on the money for what i was after.

ps. sorry for calling you "Tom" in my last message. Although i'm sure 
Tom would be happy to take credit for a great answer ;-)

thanks again all.