rpm 4.1

alliance/src/README

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # NOTE: You can find the latest revision of this document at:
 # http://asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/latest-checkout/alliance/src
 #
-# $Id: README,v 1.7 2003/02/28 10:56:09 czo Exp $
+# $Id: README,v 1.8 2003/12/10 15:32:40 czo Exp $
 
 This file discuss about installation of Alliance on UNIX machines.
 
@@ -67,17 +67,7 @@ libXpm.so.4 libXt.so.6 libc.so.6 libm.so.6 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 /bin/sh
 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0). 
 
-You can generate the rpm for your platform by issuing :
- 1- if you are using rpm version < 4.1
- rpm -ta alliance-5.0-XXX.tar.gz 
- 
- 2- if you are using rpm version < 4.1
- mkdir /var/tmp/czo/rpm (czo is my login name)
- cd /var/tmp/czo/rpm 
- mkdir BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS
- rpmbuild -ta alliance-5.0-XXX.tar.gz 
- 
-Or you can get the latest rpm package available on alliance site,
+You can get the latest rpm package available on alliance site,
 Rpm named *.rpm are build on a modified RedHat 7.2 we use at lip6.
 Rpm named *-rh8.rpm are build on a up2date full install of RedHat 8o 
 
@@ -85,6 +75,27 @@ log as root then type :
 
 > rpm -Uvh alliance-5.0-YYY.rpm
 
+To build a .rpm package for your platform
+-------------------------------------------
+
+You can generate the rpm for your platform (czo is my login name) :
+
+# change the default rpm path for non root build
+ echo "%_topdir    /var/tmp/czo/rpm" > $HOME/.rpmmacros
+
+# create these dirs...
+ mkdir -p /var/tmp/czo/rpm ;\
+ cd /var/tmp/czo/rpm ;\
+ mkdir BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS
+
+ then cd where you have downloaded alliance and type
+
+ 1- if you are using rpm version < 4.1
+ rpm -ta alliance-5.0-XXX.tar.gz 
+ 
+ 2- if you are using rpm version > 4.1
+ rpmbuild -ta alliance-5.0-XXX.tar.gz 
+
 
 # Building from the sources :
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