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2017 Oct 29
0
How to encourage maintainers to update their software
...entos using the following procedure.
You need to have rpmdevtools installed:
yum install rpmdevtools
Now set up the build directory structure in your home directory:
rpmdev-setuptree
After that, download the Fedora srpm, then run a rpmbuild command against the rpm you downloaded:
rpmbuild -ba nameofsourcerpm.src.rpm
Now you see what happens. Sometimes the process will run and you'll end up with a rpm file in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/. If so, then you're done. You've got the Centos rpm that you wanted.
If the process errors out then your next step depends on the nature of the error. If it's...
2017 Oct 29
5
How to encourage maintainers to update their software
Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
src.rpms?
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400
> H wrote:
>
> > The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is
> missing
>
> I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering.
>
> > - The