Hi

I want to apply a patch to 'mount'. The patch (can't post the URL because I don't have enough posts :[ ) affects 'mount/get_label_uuid.c' and 'mount/linux_fs.h' from the 'util-linux' package.

I can't find the sources for this package in my distrib (community). Where to find them ?

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$ uname-a
Linux dhcp-1038-150 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 8 16:41:52 CEST 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz unknown GNU/Linux

$ rpm -q util-linux
util-linux-2.12a-4mdk
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These are available on the URPMI repositories in the SRC directories.

Use an FTP client to connect to one of the respositories

(See: http://www.zebulon.org.uk/urpmi_en.html)

Then climb the tree until you find the respective SRC directory which has all of the .src.rpm files which you can use to rebuild the utils.

This has the advantage of keeping you in the Mandrake arena as well in that you will be working on exactly the same files Mandrake uses to compile their version of the utils.

Thank you, now I'm sure I've done the right thing (found this package on one of those servers).
But now, I've got many files under "/usr/src/RPM/SOURCES" matching "util-linux*".
Most of them are patches, and one seems to be the main archive : "util-linux-2.12a.tar.bz2".
When I untar this package and do a configure/make, I got compiling errors.
Should I apply all those patches in order to have a good version ?

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$ ls /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/util-linux*
util-linux-2.10r-clock-1.1-ppc.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.10s-clock-syntax-ppc.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.10s-s390x.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11a-gecossize.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11b-s390x.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11f-rawman.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11h-fix-compilation.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11m-2gb.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11m-cmos-alpha.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11m-fdisk-fixes.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11m-kudzu.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11m-mcookie-urandom.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11m-nolock-docs.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11o-chfn-lsb-usergroups.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11o-nochkdupexe.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11r-miscfixes.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11t-alpha-buildfix.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11t-dumboctal.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11t-mkfsman.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11t-moretc.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11t-swapoff.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11x-procpartitions-37436.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11x-set-as-encrypted.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11x-swapon.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11y-nfsmount.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.11y-retryudp.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12a-biarch-utmp.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12a-compilation.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12a-cryptoapi-load-module.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12a-mdkconf.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12a-mount-remove-silly-options-in-auto.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12a.tar.bz2
util-linux-2.12a-users.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-chfn-chsh-unckecked-return-error.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-fix-ioctl.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-kbdrate-period-fix.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-largefile.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-loop-AES-v2.0e.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-losetup-gzloop.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-losetup-try-LOOP_CHANGE_FD-when-loop-already-busy.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-lower-LOOP_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH-for-AES.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12pre-autodav.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-swapon-skip-encrypted.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-swaponsymlink-57301.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.12-user_label_umount.patch.bz2
util-linux-2.7-chfn.pamd
util-linux-2.7-chsh.pamd
util-linux-2.7-login.pamd
util-linux-2.9v-nonroot.patch.bz2
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There are command line parameters that will run the rpm rebuild routines

(ala rpm --rebuild util-linux-xxx.src.rpm ) but not delete the files after they have been compiled (of course you could always stop the above manually!).

This leaves the patched source tree sitting in

/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/src or thereabouts.

Most of this is available via RPM documentation.

It will automatically leave you with a patched and ready to compile source tree with the Make, etc. configured exactly the way you need it for Mandrake.

Then you make any changes and let the script complete.

You can actually end up with a distributable RPM with your patch if you like.

Ok, thanks a lot for the tips, RPM seems more friendly to me now

ps : I've found the exact command :
$ rpm --recompile util-linux-2.12a-5mdk.src.rpm
which leaves the sources and a prepared Makefile in the following directory : /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/util-linux-2.12a/

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Why the hell am I always doing it the hard way...???
Oh yes... I don't read the docs.

RPM is great but it has many failings notably with dependacy issues.

That is where urpmi takes over from RPM.

One neat trick is to use URPMI to set up for a compilation.

You can actually pass parameters to RPM from urpmi to say compile a src.rpm file.

URPMI will notice that you do not have the proper developement packages and install EVERYTHING for you from the repositories before it attempts the compilation.

VERY nice...

noted.