[hobbit] Hobbit as a Package, Fedora Core 3

[Daniel Bourque]

Building rpms from tarballs are a major pain... just grab the src.rpm, 
build it on a system that is like all your target systems, and rebuild 
it with "rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm" . You'll only need to have 
rddtools, pcre, devel rpms installed on the system where you rebuild the 
rpm.

for example, I've rebuilt hobbit-4.2.0-1.src.rpm on a rh9 server. it 
kicked out 3 rpms: server, client, tools.

So far I've installed the client rpm onto dozens of rh9, 
fc3,fc4,fc6,el3,el4 boxes without having to install any other rpms.

hope that helps.

 

Daniel Bourque
Systems/Network Administrator
Weather Data Inc

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James Wade wrote:

> Hello All,
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> We are using Fedora Core 3 for an in-house application suite.
> I've loaded on Hobbit with no problems and everything is working,
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> but I compiled everything from source.
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> I also had to compile and install: Apache2, rrdtool, tcl, pcre, and 
> libart
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> prior to compiling Hobbit.
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> These are development boxes which use Kickstart to install new
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> versions of the in-house applications.
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> I would like to create a single rpm's of Hobbit, Apache2,
> rrdtool, tcl, pcre, and libart so that I can easily install Hobbit
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> during the Kickstart process.
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> I've never created an rpm of a software application. Can someone give
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> me some good pointers. I've dug through some of the docs,
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> but I'm still a bit rough on the process. I understand that some of the
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> applications have a file that I might be able to use in the process.
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> Thanks....James
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