From: J S <webnews@comcast.net>
To: Robert <robert_schmidli@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How do you apply patches to source code?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:52:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1053957137.20992.8.camel@jayhawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bass5l$5fk$1@main.gmane.org>
Here's the easiest way to get a SRPM into buildable condition...
On "older" versions of RH / other distros, do ...
rpm -bp <specfile>
On RH 8 & 9, the command is rpmbuild -bp <specfile>
This will apply all the patches that were included with the SRPM. When
finished, there should be a "makeable" source tree in a BUILD
directory. On RH systems, it's in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD.
Of course, to get the specfile, you need to install (rpm -I) the SRPM.
That puts the specfile into a SPEC directory (/usr/src/redhat/SPEC on RH
systems).
If you simply want to get a binary executable out of an SRPM, use
rpmbuild --rebuild <SRPM>. There are lots of other options for rpm and
rpmbuild. I use these options the most. The manpages for rpm and
rpmbuild are pretty good as far as manpages go.
Josh
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 07:03, Robert wrote:
> I have recently obtained the source code to an application as a .src.rpm
> file. I have unbundled the code into /usr/src/RPMS/SOURCES. There are a
> whole lot of .patch.bz2 files in the directory, as well as the main .tar.bz2
> file.
>
> How do I compile the program with the patches?
>
> I realise this is probably an easy one, but I can't find any documentation
> about applying patches.
>
> Robert.
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-26 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-26 11:03 How do you apply patches to source code? Robert
2003-05-26 12:42 ` Ken Moffat
2003-05-26 13:16 ` Robert
2003-05-26 20:36 ` Ken Moffat
2003-05-26 13:40 ` Amin
2003-05-26 13:52 ` J S [this message]
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