Re: rpm question

[pauljohn]

Ken Gosier wrote:
> 
> Hopefully an easy question on the rpm's:
> 
> I installed the rh6.2 rpm. When I query rpm, I get
> 
> swarm-hdf5-2.1.1-1.rh6
> 
> (Many thanks to Paul Johnson for providing these, btw.)
> 
> Question: As far as I understand, this rpm installs headers
> and libraries, but not the actual source itself. 
yes

> If I want
> to get the source, it seems like there are 2 options:
> 
> 1) Install the source rpm from
> 
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/SRPMS/
> 
> If I can do this, would it just be a case of downloading
> this rpm and issuing
> 
> rpm -ivh <srpm filename>
> 
> Then it would just install the source files alone, not
> overwriting the headers/libraries already there?
It dumps the tarball and spec file into the place where you build rpms,
by default /usr/src/redhat.
> 
I got harrassed about filespace, so I don't even put up SRPMs most of
the time. If you had an SRPM,  you could theoretically build rpms with
the command "rpm --rebuild swarm-XX-src.rpm".  Or, if you do the install
with -i, you cd into the spec directory and "rpm -ba swarm-XX.spec" to
build swarm rpms.

Your question does not say you want to build rpms, actually, but in case
somebody does want to...

I do post the spec files,
(http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/) which
you can download, then get the raw source from swarm ftp, and repackage
it so the directory name and file name are swarm-2.1.xx.2001xxxx or
whatever.

Then in the SPEC directory, do "rpm -ba swarm-hdf5-xxx" to start the
build process.

If you are building on a stock redhat system, you need to change some
rpms. I use jikes 0.47, hdf5-1.2.2, gcc-2.95.3

> 2) Get the source tarball from
> 
> http://www.swarm.org/release-swarm.html
> 
> and do an install from the source.
> 
His tarball, my specfile, its a beautiful thing.

Otherwise, you are doing it the old fashioned honorable way that we have
documented in some detail in the past in the SwarmFaq
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