[Xorp-users] Building RPM for CentOS 6

[Ben Greear]

On 08/04/2013 06:19 AM, Dirk wrote:
> I managed to get through with it, so here is how it finally worked

Please send a git patch for the changes you made.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> The script for rpm building and the specfile are faulty. Here is what I
> had to change:
>
> spec file:
> - the changelog was deranged, rpmbuild requires the time entries to be
> consecutive and descriptions to be there for every version entry
> - the options part in the beginning of the spec file needs a %define
> __strip /bin/true because otherwise stripping is tried even for shell
> scripts which breaks the build
>
> Additionally I changed xorp_confdir to %{_sysconfdir}/xorp because I do
> not like throwing everything unsorted into /etc/, but that is not
> necessary to make it work. Same with localstatedir.
>
> script:
> The script relies on pulling source code from the git repo but does not
> do so. I changed this part to:
> # Create a clean repo.
> mkdir -p $TMPDIR
> cd $TMPDIR
> git clone git://github.com/greearb/xorp.ct.git
> cd xorp.ct/
> cp README xorp/
> tar cfa $RPMDIR/SOURCES/xorp-$VERSION.tar.lzma xorp
> cd
>
> At last rpmbuild produced a nice rpm which installed error free.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirk
>
>
> Am 03.08.13 20:49, schrieb Dirk:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am looking for RPMs for CentOS 6 (64Bit) and came up empty so far (I
>> do not want to install compilers and stuff on my routers).
>>
>> So I thought about building my own and found a hint in the xorp release
>> notes that there is a rpm building script - but did not find any
>> information on how to use it.
>>
>> Please, if someone has already done that: any hint or help is appreciated.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
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