Thanks Anders, -bb worked perfect, but I did use rpmbuild instead of rpm as suggested by Ken. Greg On 12/12/05, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Monday 12 December 2005 19:25, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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It has been awhile since I have needed to compile a *.src.rpm package.

Can someone walk me thru it.

In particular I'm trying to get ruby-1.8.3 installed on SUSE 10.0 box.

I have downloaded the ruby-1.8.3-3.src.rpm file from the OSS factory.

I have done a simple "rpm -i ruby-1.8.3-3.src.rpm" and now have several files in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and the spec file in SPECS.

I have untarred the ruby-1.8.3.tar.bz2. What are the next steps?

Delete the untarred directory

Then run

rpm -ba /usr/src/packages/SPECS/ruby.spec

or -bb, if you don't want to generate a new src.rpm

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Anders Johansson wrote:

On Monday 12 December 2005 20:38, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Thanks Anders,

-bb worked perfect, but I did use rpmbuild instead of rpm as suggested by Ken.

Argh, yes, of course it's rpmbuild, sorry. Yet another case of typing fingers having a life of their own :/

It actually used to be "rpm --rebuild," not "rpm --rebuild.

* Randall R Schulz [12-13-05 10:13]:

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 04:52, John Summerfield wrote:

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It actually used to be "rpm --rebuild," not "rpm --rebuild.

A subtle distinction, indeed.

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On 12/12/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:25 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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It has been awhile since I have needed to compile a *.src.rpm package.

Can someone walk me thru it.

In particular I'm trying to get ruby-1.8.3 installed on SUSE 10.0 box.

I have downloaded the ruby-1.8.3-3.src.rpm file from the OSS factory.

I have done a simple "rpm -i ruby-1.8.3-3.src.rpm" and now have several files in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and the spec file in SPECS.

I have untarred the ruby-1.8.3.tar.bz2. What are the next steps?

No need to untar anything. Use rpmbuild -bb to create an rpm file which will be under /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ and then install with rpm or YaST.

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Thanks Ken, worked like a champ, but instead of getting one rpm, I got 7. Looks like SUSE are making ruby a more complex environment in the OSS factory. They even have rubygems in the factory (in addition to the 7). I'm installing ruby on rails now. That is actually what I'm wanting to experiment with. Thanks again, Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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In particular I'm trying to get ruby-1.8.3 installed on SUSE 10.0 box.

I have downloaded the ruby-1.8.3-3.src.rpm file from the OSS factory.

I have done a simple "rpm -i ruby-1.8.3-3.src.rpm" and now have several files in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and the spec file in SPECS.

I have untarred the ruby-1.8.3.tar.bz2. What are the next steps?

No need to untar anything. Use rpmbuild -bb to create an rpm file which will be under /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ and then install with rpm or YaST.

What if one wanted to make some changes to the source code, apply patches etc, and then want to compile the rpm? Thanks.