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12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
20:49
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.