[RULE] What I did on my Summer vacation...

[Michael Fratoni]

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Hi all,
I had a free evening while I was away and dragged out my laptop, much to 
my wife's horror. (You wouldn't believe how hard it was to smuggle it 
into the car...)

I've been building the TinyX packages as a subpackage of Xfree86, which 
means rebuilding all of XFree86 just to make a small change in TinyX. On 
a slow machine, this can take several hours.

I've now managed to create a source rpm that builds just TinyX. (Even on 
an i586, this takes less than 15 minutes) To use it:
Install the stock XFree86 source rpm from the Red Hat 9 disks. (You should 
be doing this as a normal user, not root. If you need help setting up a 
non-root rpm build environment, see: 
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html )

So, Install the stock Red Hat source rpm package, then install:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/XFree86/kdrive/9/XFree86-TinyX-4.3.0-7RULE.nosrc.rpm
(The package contains nothing but a .spec file, it uses the stock XFree86 
source to build.)

You can then build the TinyX package with rpmbuild -bb 
${your_rpm_build_dir}/SPECS/XFree86-TinyX.spec
(In my case:
/home/mfratoni/rpmbuild/SOURCES/XFree86-TinyX-4.3.0)

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- -Michael

pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/
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