Creating an RPM for a package for ease of maintenance...
 

Hi Forum

Considering I Install Fedora 10 ( according to Phoronix FC 10 is faster than FC 12 ) 64 bits in a box, and I plan to install some packages compiled from source ( generally I avoid using precompiled packages, most of the stuff I use is Heavy number crunching so I prefer to compile from source using icc/ifort/mkl from intel, instead of the more usual gcc ) like Scilab, Octave/QtOctave, Paraview, GMSH, etc...

instead of using the traditional ./configure make install scheme, I was wandering if one can make a binary rpm of these, that will allow me to simply rpm -e <whatever>.rpm in case I plan to use a different version ot the package...

Is there some sort of src2rpm thing for Fedora...?

BRGDS

Alex

checkinstall is what you need.

Hi 18Googol2

Assuming I ran #cmake <what/eve/r>&&make&&make install, how do I use checkinstall to safely remove all the files added into /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib /usr/local/share... etc...? In case I want to remove the package...?

BRGDS

Alex

The installation and removal procedures are well written in the doco:

http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/c...ll/docs/README

But in short, checkinstall build the .rpm package from source, then you can add the application by 'rpm -i', and in case you need to remove the package, just run 'rpm -e' as usual :)

PS: remember to not run 'make install', instead cmake && make && checkinstall :)

Hi 18Googol2

Thanks for yr reply :-)

BRGDS

Alex

Short : Checkinstall uses 'make install' and
keeps track of the locations to create a package.

Some of the software, you use, are available as
SRC.RPMS which includes patches and a "spec" file,
used to build rpm packages.
The file.spec can often be edited to your requirements.

10,000 packages source, Fedora 12
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu.../source/SRPMS/
And 10,000 , Fedora 13 Rawhide :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu.../source/SRPMS/

.. all most often ready to build with
'rpmbuild -bb name.spec' on Fedora 10 or 11.

Notice : Fedora 10 is left unsupported,
( no more updates ) in about 50 days.
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Hi Knudfl

Does this mean that the FC10 repos will no longer exist in 50 days... ??

BRGDS

Alex

The repo's will be moved to the archive after some time.
You will find out when you get stopped, and then have
to disable the ' update.repo '. And some months later
have to change URL to the "( old ) archive".


The Fedora 9 support / update stopped four months ago.
and it's still here
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...inux/releases/

Updates ... ( no Fedora 9, empty. )
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...linux/updates/

Fedora 7 + 8
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...inux/releases/
Archive link :
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu.../fedora/linux/
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