RPM source?

drillsar · 02-02-2017, 11:30 AM

I am thinking of going with Centos and not to familiar with RPM more familiar with Dpkg.

How do you build an RPM from source? Example like Apache2. It seems that Centos takes awhile to get new releases.

smallpond · 02-02-2017, 11:49 AM

Generally speaking you set up an rpm build environment, put the source tarball in the SOURCES directory, write a spec file that goes in the SPECS directory, and run rpmbuild.

John VV · 02-02-2017, 02:05 PM

please define

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It seems that Centos takes awhile to get new releases.

cent gets the bugfixes and security updates out a few days after redhat

also cent/rhel 7.3 dose use the current apache 2.4
with all the security and bug bixes in the trunk back ported to the major version in the os

cent like redhat will NEVER change the major version of the software installed in the 10year life cycle ( 7 for centos)
but the security fixes WILL be all up to date

drillsar · 02-02-2017, 02:08 PM

Ok thanks