On 05/23/2015 04:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 3:49 AM, David Sommerseth
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 23 May 2015 08:13:40 CEST, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have a src rpm.  What is the easiest way to go into it,
>>> edit the spec file, get back out?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> -T
>>
>>
>> As your ordinary user (not root):
>>
>> $ rpm -i whatever.src.rpm
>> $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
>> $ vim/emacs/gedit whatever.spec
>> $ rpmbuild -bs whatever.spec
>
>
> Even better:
>
>     mkdir package-srpm
>     cd package-srpm
>     rpm2cpio package.src.rpm | cpio -id
>
> That gets you the relevant components, in a directory you can put in
> git and manipulate and save your changes and do builds with. I've
> several dozen examples of such setups at https://github.com/nkadel/,
> with '.gitignore' set up to ignore tarballs and unzipped source code,
> and set up to build the packages with 'mock' so they get built in a
> pristine environment, rather than necessarily in your local possibly
> hand-modified environment.
>
> There is a pretty good example at
> https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.7.x-srpm.
>
>> Remeber that you should normally increase the Release tag number and add an entry in the %changelog section towards the end. You can alsorun rpmlint on the spec file to do some sanity checks.
>
> And if you patch something, do please publish your patches to the
> original project owner or the maintainer of the distribution you're
> working with. One of the best things about free software and open
> source is that when one of us fixes something, we let other people
> know so they can include the fix or point out "oh, no, you've created
> a different problem!"
>
>
>> --
>> kind regards,
>>
>> David Sommerseth
>

Thank you guys!



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