[radvd-devel-l] Building the radvd from source rpm for fc8

[Andy Johnson]

Hi, Martin,
Thanks !
Great, this works !
I followed your instructions; two rpms were created
under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64:

radvd-1.1-1.x86_64.rpm  and radvd-debuginfo-1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

I installed radvd-1.1-1.x86_64.rpm and everything went ok (I mean
these files that
were not generated before are now generated).

Regards,
Andy


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Martin Nagy <mnagy at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>  installing software on Fedora like this is not a good idea. I recommend
>  building your own rpm and install it via rpm -ivh, like this:
>  cp radvd-1.0-5.fc8.src.rpm /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
>  cd /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
>  rpmbuild --rebuild radvd-1.0-5.fc8.src.rpm
>
>  Then, you should have your rpm somewhere in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS .
>  The reason you have not saw init script and other files is that
>  installation of these files is done by rpm itself, not by the makefile.
>  When you use the method I described, the make install is done so that
>  all the files are stored in a chroot-ed environment, refered to as
>  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in the spec file. Then, additional files are copied in
>  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT as seen in the %install section:
>  install -m 644 redhat/radvd.conf.empty
>  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/radvd.conf
>  install -m 755 redhat/radvd.init $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{initdir}/radvd
>  install -m 644 redhat/radvd.sysconfig
>  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/radvd
>
>  In some cases, we also delete some files that we don't want, but not in
>  case of radvd. Then there's the %files section that tells you which
>  files we actually want to install.
>  If you install packages the way you did, the rpm system will not know of
>  those files, because they weren't installed by it. So as far as rpm is
>  concerned, you actually don't have radvd installed on your system. I
>  suggest that you manually find all installed files and remove them and
>  then install radvd either by the method I wrote above or by official rpm.
>
>  Regards,
>  Martin
>
>
>
>  Andy Johnson wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > A question about building the radvd from source rpm:
>  >
>  > It could be that I make here some silly error, as I don't have much
>  > knowledge about installing from source rpms; however, I must add that
>  > had done the same process with other source rpms (from RedHatfc8) and
>  > it was ok.
>  >
>  > Here is what I did:
>  > I have an FC8 machine ; radvd is not installed on it.
>  >
>  > first , downloaded the source rpm: radvd-1.0-5.fc8.src.rpm
>  > then
>  >     rpm -ivh radvd-1.0-5.fc8.src.rpm
>  >     cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
>  >     rpmbuild -bp radvd.spec
>  >     cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/radvd-1.0/
>  >     ./configure && make && make install
>  >
>  > All went well.
>  >
>  > But, I expected to see, at the end ,
>  >  an init file (/etc/init.d/radvd) and a folder (/var/run/radvd/) and
>  >  a conf file (/etc/radvd.conf), and more; None of these were created.
>  >  On a different machine where
>  >  I installed from rpm (not source rpm) all these files were created.
>  >
>  >  A brief look at the .spec file shows that these files should have been created.
>  >
>  >  Am I missing something ?
>  >  Any ideas?
>  >
>  >  Any advice will be much appreciated,
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >
>  > Andy
>
>
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