From c857d01e345a98df8446a1e9e85067e70e694a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk_GD3B2YRV5t7ZM5GOh2nD2jfC6Rihqvg Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:28:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clarification on building rpms --- AFSLore/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource.mdwn | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/AFSLore/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource.mdwn b/AFSLore/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource.mdwn index 418f4c6..2f9d27b 100644 --- a/AFSLore/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource.mdwn +++ b/AFSLore/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource.mdwn @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The following tools are needed to build OpenAFS: - perl, v5.6 or better - make - compiler - * must be capable of building kernel modules for the target) + * must be capable of building kernel modules for the target * if using gcc, version 4.2 or better is recommended - assembler (as) - linker @@ -353,7 +353,13 @@ Some make targets of interest - make tests - make the (old) afs test suite -### Building RPM packages +## Building RPM packages + +A script is provided to build RPM packages. This script will run the +configure and make as part of the process. You'll need to get source +and document tar archives of the version you want to build, and then +use a script to build the source RPM, then use the rpmbuild tool to +build the packages from that source RPM. To build OpenAFS RPM packages, use the OpenAFS makesrpm.pl script to build a source RPM, and then use the rpm tool rpmbuild to build the various packages. -- 1.7.1